More Firefox font rendering bugs

[ewx]

http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/junk/cc.html in Linux Firefox:

Windows Firefox is not really any better:

IE7 gets it right:

Konqueror doesn't even try:

I don't have Safari to hand right now.

I guess for best results send precomposed characters to the browser, and put up with bad rendering where none are available l-(

(These are the Firefox and Konqueror from Debian etch.)

Comments

[lionsphil.livejournal.com]

Opera 9.24 on OS X 10.4 is fine (although the umlaut on the `O' is right against the table row border) and indistinguishable between the precombined/combining forms. Likewise Opera 9.5 Alpha, and Safari 2.0.4.

Firefox 2.0.0.8 puts the umlauts to one side (the "doesn't know that they should be combined" case). Amaya 9.54 puts the combining lowercase `o' umlaut a pixel to the right of the precombined one, and the capital `O' umlaut at the same height as the lowercase `o' one, so it's vertically just below the inner top apex.

(I'd take screenshots, but my brain is desperately trying to shut down right now.)