Icons show up as Emojis

[dinariox]

Icons show up as Emojis

[mfranzke]

@dinariox thanks a lot for reporting this. Actually you're already on the correct track – it's WebKit not being able to either load, or process the fonts under specific circumstances and that for the underlaying glyphs would get displayed (on other websites that use icon fonts, these might even be abstract rectangles), comparable (not visually, but conceptually) to what you would get in case of images that wouldn't be possible to get loaded (displaying broken images instead).

Unfortunately I'm not aware of any solution for this, not just as it only occurs occasionally, but as well only on WebKit, but also I don't see any possibility to detect this problem and interfere in these cases. The only other possibility would be to insert the icons into the source code directly, but that actually bloats the DOM with unnecessary elements on the other hand.

[dinariox]

@mfranzke thank you for the reply. Good to hear that it's really a Safari-only problem which is technically not allowed to use at DB so it isn't that big of an issue. It's a bummer that there's no easy fix but good to know that you're aware!