greek characters in 'mi' with mathvariant="normal" are italicized when using the svg renderer

[svacha]

Testing the following MathML content on the MathJax demo page (http://www.mathjax.org/demos/ ):

<math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML">
<mi>θ</mi>
<mi mathvariant="normal">θ</mi>
<mi mathvariant="italic">θ</mi>
<mtext>θ</mtext>
<mi mathvariant="sans-serif">θ</mi>
<mi mathvariant="sans-serif-italic">θ</mi>
</math>

Choosing the SVG math renderer, there is no difference between the display of the first four thetas (all as italics), but I would expect the second and fourth to be not italics. The HTML-CSS renderer does show the second and fourth as not italics.

Does the SVG renderer not have the glyphs for the non-italicized greek characters?

Tested on Chrome Version 29.0.1547.76.

[dpvc]

Does the SVG renderer not have the glyphs for the non-italicized greek characters?

Correct. Neither does the HTML-CSS renderer. But v2.3 will include a number of new web-based fonts, so that will help with this situation.

[dpvc]

(I'm marking this a feature request since it is not really a bug.)

[dpvc]

MathJax now maps the Greek letters to their Math Alphanumerics positions, when there are one for the given mathvariant. If the fonts don't include the needed character, they are taken from a system font (when possible). I think this was in v3.0.4.