Document is encoded as UTF-8 and charset=utf-8 is set in HEAD section
- (- ... Hyphen)http://www.webmasterworld.com/html/3262918.htm
↴ (UTF-8 character 21B4)
This works OK in FF and Op (with/without a UTF-8 meta tag), but IE6 baulks and just displays a square block, regardless of whether there is a UTF-8 meta tag or not. To get it to work in IE6 you need to tell it to use a unicode font!
↴ (UTF-8 character 21B4 enclosed in a SPAN - works in IE6)
Specifying symbolic fonts in several cases...
| Character | Description | Font | Code | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ✓ | Check Mark | (not specified) | ✓ | Firefox 3 displays this character even without the Arial Unicode MS font installed. IE8, Chrome and Safari do not. However, with Arial Unicode MS then IE8/Vista displays this character as well. |
| ✓ | Check Mark | (not specified) | (copy/pasted - must be from a unicode font?!) | |
| ü | Check Mark | Wingdings1 | ü | |
| þ | Check Box | Wingdings1 | þ | |
| P | Check Mark | Wingdings 21 | P | |
| a | Check Mark (?) | Webdings1 | a | |
| a | Greek Alpha | Symbol1 | a | |
| ↭ | Left Right Wave Arrow | Cambria Math | ↭ | Why the large top/bottom margins in FF? |
| ffl | Latin Small Ligature Ffl | Cambria (although not specified) - not contained in Lucida Sans Unicode | ffl |
1 Symbolic (non unicode) fonts are only displayed in Internet Explorer, Chrome and Safari. In Firefox and Opera a font substitute is used instead. Although the reference document does state that the Symbol font works in Opera - this must have been pre Opera 10, since 10.63 this does not work. Ref: Common fonts to all versions of Windows & Mac equivalents
2 "Cambria Math" (unicode font) does not appear to be considered 'symbolic'. It does contain the normal alphabet.
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