Konqueror/KHTML displays spurious characters on www.ubuntu.com

[Graeme Hewson]

On various pages in ubuntu.com, such as http://www.ubuntu.com/download, Konqueror/KHTML displays spurious characters. See screenshots, for example, where what's supposed to be a dingbat like "❭" is displayed as "â⚥¢" or "⯠̊", depending on the installation.

The characters are displayed correctly in Konqueror/WebKit. The characters are not in the HTML source code. If text is selected with the mouse, they are not contained in the clipboard.

[Graeme Hewson (ghewson)]

Created attachment 72127
Screenshot of http://www.ubuntu.com/download

On various pages in ubuntu.com, such as http://www.ubuntu.com/download, spurious characters are displayed. See attachment, which shows, for instance "Ubuntu Desktop â-o", where "-o" is superscript. http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop shows, as another example, "â⁻¢ How to run Ubuntu from a CD or USB stick â⁻o".

Rekonq and Firefox don't display these spurious characters.

The characters are not in the HTML source code. If text is selected with the mouse, they are not contained in the clipboard. They are displayed whether the rendering engine is KHTML or WebKit. View / Set Encoding is Default. Changing the encoding to something else doesn't alter the characters.

[Christoph-maxiom (christoph-maxiom)]

Here with WebKit rendering engine, those characters are rendered similar to a '>' char. It probably is specified in some of the CSS files.

[Graeme Hewson (ghewson)]

Problem has gone. I guess it was the CSS files, then, as Christoph Feck suggested.

[Graeme Hewson (ghewson)]

However, a little while after I posted my previous comment, Konqueror crashed. After restarting it, another rendering problem I was experiencing disappeared (temporarily), and this problem reappeared. Re-opening ticket.

[Graeme Hewson (ghewson)]

I can reproduce the problem after renaming ~/.kde/share/config/konquerorrc and ~/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/, so all settings are the default.

Problem is only present with KHTML. However, if browser engine config is changed from KHTML to WebKit, spurious characters are still displayed after page refresh; it's necessary to start a new instance of Konqueror before WebKit displays page correctly.

Currently using Konqueror 4.8.5.

[Graeme Hewson (ghewson)]

Problem is no longer present.