yep looked familiar.  I'm running 1.0 (2002052918)  Found out it all
went away when I went to this page.  

http://www.desktop-linux.net/aa-font-tweaks.htm 

and followed their instructions on using true type fonts in Mandrake and
then in Mozilla.  I render them correctly now. (and the tweaks are
noticeably sharp) Also check your font set.  I've had a couple that were
at best flakey (even in windows)  Microsoft Tahoma comes out nicely for
me.

James


On 24 Jun 2002 15:14:00 +0100
"D. D. Brierton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said with temporary authority

> I have rather a peculiar problem. It's NOT the usual problem with web
> pages written with numeric entities between 129 and 159 from Microsoft
> Window's CP1252. At first I thought it was, but then I realised that a
> lot of web pages I was viewing in Mozilla 1.0.0 were displaying
> incorrectly despite the fact that were using the *correct*
> named/decima/hex entites to include em and en dashes and curly/smart
> quotes.
> 
> I thought that perhaps this was a general problem, but I went to this
> page:
> 
> http://www.hclrss.demon.co.uk/demos/ent4_frame.html
> 
> and could see that in fact all of characters in the right frame
> display correctly EXCEPT a few punctuation characters, such as dashes
> and quote marks. I have put up a web page listing the characters
> together with a screenshot of how they are displaying in my browser:
> 
> http://www.dzr-web.com/unicode-test.html
> 
> This is weird. Non latin scripts, such as Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic and
> various East Asian scripts display properly. I have installed the
> Microsoft True Type Core Web Fonts, using Mandrake's drakfont utility
> (I'm using Mandrake 8.1). Why would just these few characters not
> display properly? It's also frustrating because those characters are
> very commonly used (for instance, see http://www.alistapart.com/ ).
> 
> I don't know whether it is a Mozilla problem or a problem with how my
> fonts have been set up, but I suspect that it is the latter (I doubt
> Mozilla 1.0.0 would have been released without this problem being
> spotted). I've been searching google for something about this and
> can't find anything. Does anyone have a clue what might be the
> problem?
> 
> TIA for any help anyone might be able to offer.
> 
> Best, Darren
> 
> P.S. I thought it might be a problem with my preferences, so I created
> a test user and let Mozilla start up with its out of the box defaults
> and the problem recurred. So I guess it is either my font setup or
> Mozilla.
> 
> -- 
> ======================================================================
> D. D. Brierton            [EMAIL PROTECTED]           www.dzr-web.com
>         Trying is the first step before failure (Homer Simpson)
> ======================================================================
> 
> 

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