[thelist] browser support for character entities
Alan Wood
alan.wood at JUSTIS.COM
Fri Mar 31 01:23:24 CST 2006
S Beam asked:
> anyone know off hand the situation with browser support for some of
> these latin-1 extensions (ISO10646 ??), like ◊ ↓ ↑,
> etc.? This stuff is part of HTML 4.01 but I'm not sure if
> font sets on Macs, linux, etc alway support them (and google seems
> confused about it too)
>
> Specifically on this page:
> http://www.zytrax.com/tech/web/entities.html
> the first section. Some of these would be mighty useful for
> <ul> lists etc...
Netscape 4.8 does not support them all. Internet Explorer 4 onwards, Opera
6 onwards, Firefox etc. and Safari support them.
Windows and Mac OS X come with fonts that contain all (or nearly all) of the
characters. Not sure about OS 9 and Linux.
Some browsers are better than others at obtaining characters from a
selection of fonts to use in a single Web page. Firefox is best, I.E. is
worst, Safari and Opera somewhere in between.
ISO 10646 is the ISO standard that is implemented by Unicode.
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Alan Wood
http://www.alanwood.net (Unicode, special characters, pesticide names)
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