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

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[personal profile] packbat
Saturday, December 22nd, 2007 09:31 am
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, [livejournal.com profile] baxil!
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[identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com
Saturday, December 22nd, 2007 03:26 pm (UTC)
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?

[identity profile] fadethecat.livejournal.com
Saturday, December 22nd, 2007 07:45 pm (UTC)
I have no idea, but was kinda wondering about it. It only started after I updated Firefox a while back, though. I think. Or maybe it was an OS X update... Now I'm not sure.

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[identity profile] baxil.livejournal.com
Sunday, December 23rd, 2007 03:29 am (UTC)
Firefox on Mac OS 10.4.11 does it as well (including the Unicode entity references in comments). Safari has no problem, either on OS 10.4 or 10.3.
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