OS X character weirdness

marco:

Firefox 3 still has this annoying text-rendering bug for me.

This is the complete source of my test page:

<html>

<body>

Look at the so/urce code to this.

</body>

</html>

It converts o/ to ø, plus a few other similar bugs. Am I the only one seeing this?

This might be related to the Twitter random-spaces-in-words bug: does this say “for th e Underworld” in Firefox 3 for you? (Note that the offending space in “th e” isn’t in the HTML source.)

My coworker encountered this problem not too long ago.  It has to do with either the language or default font in OS X.  The same happens with an “l” followed by a slash.  Unfortunately, I can’t remember the exact solution, but it had to do with messing with fonts and the internationalsettings, and nothing application specific (I remember that this happened in TextEdit, too).

Also, I think the Twitter random-spaces thing is done with Javascript to help wrap long un-breaking lines (though not executed very well).  If you view the rendered source (in Firebug), the spaces are there.

Source: marco