Text skewed in panels custom text [#1362248]

This might be the weirdest bug I've ever seen, and not necessarily related to Panels either, but I post it here to maybe get some clues. I have a quite standard panel page with some "custom text" in one region. This works fine in all browsers but IE 8 (and not 6, 7 or 9), where a *part of* a Norwegian letter is skewed in relation to, well, the rest of it.

Have a look at the screenshot and the Norwegian letter "å", where the circle above the a is skewed. The weird(er) thing is that this only happens with Panels Custom Text. I have the same layout with teasers and blocks there, but with no problem. In the screenshot you see a block with the same text (and same text format) displaying normally right below it.

Anyone?

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Comment #1

merlinofchaos CreditAttribution: merlinofchaos commented 6 December 2011 at 15:00

Perhaps there is a mismatch on the collation of your tables?

You can use SHOW TABLE STATUS in mysql to see the status of tables, which includes the collation.

For blocks, they're stored in block_custom in D7. For Panels, if the custom text is part of a larger panel they'll just be stored in the panels_pane table. If they're using the ctools_custom_content table. Perhaps one of these two tables has the wrong collation?

Comment #2

vegardjo CreditAttribution: vegardjo commented 7 December 2011 at 11:58

Thanks, but that was not it. This was stored in panels_pane as part of a larger panel, but both this table and block_custom has utf8_general_ci as collation (so does ctools_custom_content BTW).

I have solved it now by simply using a block instead, but it's a weird issue.. Feel free to close this if you like, and I'll update if I figure something out down the line!