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Re: Recognized Unicode characters?

2005-05-09 13:51:14
Is there a particular browser-supported font I should be using?

I've been using "Arial Unicode MS" for several years. It displays
correctly (what seems) all unicode characters.

             http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arial_Unicode_MS


Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev




On 5/10/05, Edward Bryant <bryant_edward(_at_)hotmail(_dot_)com> wrote:

I had not thought about the font setting as being a potential problem. I had
it set as the browser's default "times new roman." When I changed the font
around in windows notepad I was able to view the em-dash, so I am assuming
now that the font is the problem. I still get the box character under
"arial" as well as "times new roman" (the seemingly two most popular).

So, this gets me back to an earlier post (where when I sought a way to
ensure that a character was output as a character reference) I was advised
not to worry about whether the XSLT processor decided to output a character
entity or not (or at least that it shouldn't matter). I was trying to do
this because I had heard that browser support for the char-refs was better
than the native characters. Doesn't problems like this one show that it does
matter?

Is there a particular browser-supported font I should be using?

Does this mean that my limited font choices will be further limited?

Setting the encoding to US-ASCII seems to be an agreeable solution, but when
I set the encoding to "US-ASCII", I get a message that it is not supported
(using insant saxon).

Can someone just tell me what settings (output, font, etc.) they would use
when outputing html to be viewed by standard browsers?


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