Subject: Re: [xsl] Recognized Unicode characters? From: Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 06:51:14 +1000 |
> 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@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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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