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On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 7:50 AM, Paul Hartman |
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>> 1. "Symbol" is not a defined CSS font family. Your choices are: serif, |
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>> sans-serif, cursive, fantasy, monospace. |
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> I've changed the CSS to use the font-family property which accepts |
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> actual fonts in addition to the generics you mention. No joy. |
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You're right. |
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>> 2. Character encodings are easy: use Unicode. :) |
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>> http://www.unicode.org/charts/symbols.html |
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> Yes they're easy. My question is about whether they have any effect |
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> on use of Symbol So far I see no evidence of it. |
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Okay, now I realize "Symbol" is the name of a specific font. I hadn't |
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really picked up on that before :) |
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After a bit of Googling, it seems the accepted solution is to use HTML |
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entities for those symbols and not try to use the raw characters as |
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you are attempting to do. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_XML_and_HTML_character_entity_references |
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Does that contain all of the symbols you need? If there are any |
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others, you should be able to use the unicode versions. |
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