By skyforbes There are still a lot of 8-bit character encoded web pages out there (e.g. ISO-8859-15, Windows-1252, etc.) and for such web pages they often make use of the pi-encoded Symbol font to expand the visual glyph capabilities of the web page (e.g. add a Euro in ISO-8859-1).
Symbol is a commercial font so GNU/Linux distributions include the free URW clone:
user@host:~$ fc-match Symbol
StandardSymbolsPS.otf: "Standard Symbols PS" "Regular"
Chromium (and Brave Browser, etc.) however refuse to use fontconfig substitutions in Fedora 42, basically breaking much of the Internet for their users. Is that a Fedora specific bug or is it everywhere?
Code for simple test page, renders properly in FireFox in Fedora but not Chromium and clones:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>Testing Symbol font-family</title>
<style type="text/css" title="Howdy">
span.sym { font-family: "Symbol", serif; }
span.urw { font-family: "Standard Symbols PS", serif; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<p>Testing Symbol: <span class="sym">This is a test string.</span></p>
<p>Testing Standard Symbols PS: <span class="urw">This is a test
string.</span></p>
</body>
</html>