I'd ask about spades, clubs, and diamonds too, but nobody uses those.

[packbat]

Question: does anyone know why every version of Firefox on Mac OsX 10.3.9 renders the little "hearts" symbol (♥) as a vertical line?

Edit: Apparently for the same reason the text gets grainy sometimes - the rendering code is flaky. There's a fix promised in Firefox 3. Thanks, baxil!

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[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Is it in all typefaces, or just the default one? Do other UAs do it too? Have you tried unicode entity references? Is BSD on PPC just a bizarre creature that doesn't really deserve its apparent popularity?

[packbat.livejournal.com]

All typefaces, neither Safari nor Internet Explorer (nor, oddly, "View Selection Source" or the select-right-click dropdown menu in Firefox) have that problem, I haven't tested using Unicode entity references (either #x2665 = ♥ or #9829 = ♥), and I am not guru enough to judge. Oh, and on Wikipedia's character entity reference page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_XML_and_HTML_character_entity_references), spades and diamonds are thick and thin horizontals, respectively, and hearts and clubs are thick and thin verticals.