Re: TECH: Re: Encourage new browser or use ASCII?

Muke Tever wrote:

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>> And how does that solve my IE6 unicode woes? It botches the Unicode in
>> both mine and David Peterson's web pages.
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> I don't know whether it will or not.  I gave up on IE long ago.  But if I
> remember correctly, IE doesn't have a browser font substitution mechanism
> like Opera and Firefox have, where if you ask it to display a character
> that's not in the current font, it'll look for it elsewhere; so
> specifying
> use of a font that *does* have the characters *should* fix the problem.


Yes, and that's the main reason I use Firefox.  So I can view many
different character types on the same page without resorting to using an
(IMO) ugly font like Code 2000 for my Latin text.

But, yeah, I've noticed that Firefox text often overlaps onto inline
images, for some reason.