Safari doesn't display some cyrillic fonts

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Safari doesn't display some cyrillic fonts

After installing Leopard, Safari doesn't display ( some) of my cyrillic content .
I'm developed the website, and all stylesheets are verdana, arial etc. just normal system fonts.

FF displays them wrong ( but readable)
Safari seem to display verdana correct.

I bet, this is a FONT problem with the system, I started the system with the system fonts only, but no success,
FF screenshot > http://discorevolution.com/Picture1.png
Safari screenshot > http://discorevolution.com/Picture2.png

encodigns are fine. on all other browsers, other macs etc. everything is just fine.
I seem to have a problem with Leopard regarding this issue

any suggestions

G5 dual 2Ghz, Mac OS X (10.5.1)

Posted on Jan 8, 2008 2:07 AM

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Tom Gewecke

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Jan 8, 2008 6:05 AM in response to Bob Bojkov

I bet, this is a FONT problem with the system

More likely it is a problem with the page code, whereby Safari is not able to determine the correct text encoding to use for some reason. Have you tried switching to the various Cyrillic options and UTF-8 in View > Text Encoding? Could you provide the url of the site or the html code so we can try to duplicate your experience?

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Tom Gewecke

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Jan 8, 2008 7:25 AM in response to Bob Bojkov

PS Your photos seem to indicate that Safari is reading UTF-8 Cyrillic as if it were Latin-1. For example, Cyrillic В is bytes D0 92 in UTF-8, and these generate Ð’ in Latin-1.

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Bob Bojkov Author

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Jan 8, 2008 8:11 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

strange:

see this screenshot.: http://discorevolution.com/Picture3.png
as you can see some fonts ARE readable ( top and bottom)

and btw. this page was OK the last 6 months, until I upgraded to leopard

can I email you the URL to the page? I don't like to post it here since its a running administration system . email me at cool(at)discorevolution.com

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Tom Gewecke

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Jan 8, 2008 8:27 AM in response to Bob Bojkov

as you can see some fonts ARE readable ( top and bottom)

Are the non-readable sections being generated in a different way, i.e. javascript instead of html?

can I email you the URL to the page?

Have sent you an email.

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Bob Bojkov Author

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Jan 8, 2008 12:48 PM in response to Bob Bojkov

seems to be a JS problem, thnx.

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gumboots

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Jan 24, 2008 4:46 PM in response to Bob Bojkov

Hi all, I've been having the same problem -- some sites, including www.lenta.ru, won't display in Safari (the text will display as squares), but will display in Firefox. I've tried all the encoding settings. The problem only started when I upgraded to Leopard. (My MacBook Pro had no problems; it's my friend's Powerbook G4 that's misbehaving, if that makes a difference) Could anyone help me resolve the problem? Thanks!

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