> > But Jan is not talking about encoding: I believe he meant that his
> > browser correctly picked up the encoding, but was not smart enough
> > to choose a font that included all the characters used on that
> > page, and requested help.
But that is not the page author's help. It is the height of presumption
on the part of such an author to make any assumptions about what fonts
are available on the system being used to browse the page. Doing so
via the <font> tag is especially wrong, since it no longer exists in standard
HTML. :)
> Well, perhaps the real problem is IE6.0. Is there a way to tell it to
> use a different font when a page is encoded UTF-8?
IE 6 doesn't seem to have such an option. In Tools->Internet Options->Fonts
you can pick which font to use for each script, but all Latin-based
scripts are grouped together under a single font. Perhaps you could
find one you like for general use that is more complete? There might
even be a more complete version of the very font you currently use
available from Microsoft . . .
-Marcos