Houston, we have a problem

On 18 May 02, at 11:26, Carlos Thompson wrote:

> Clint Jackson Baker wrote:
>
> > Okay, so I thought, this will be easy.  All I have to
> > do is go into the HTML code, put in &#numberIwant, and
> > there ya go.  So I converted the number code for
> > Cherokee character D (the sound /a/) from hexadecimal
> > 13A0 to 5024.  The computer didn't like that--after I
> > put in Ꭰ it just gave me a question mark.
> > Obviously I'm missing something--what is it?
>
> You probably lack a font that includes that character or the browser is
> using a font that doesn't include it.
And that's two different kettles of fish.

For example, Mozilla apparently will use any font that contains a
certain character even if that means it has to mix and match fonts to
display all the characters on a web page, while MSIE only lets you
assign fonts to script ranges -- and if you assign font X to, say,
Cyrillic, then a Cyrillic character which is not in font X (but is
maybe in fonts Y and Z which are also installed on your computer) will
display as a question mark.

My guess is probably for "you don't have a font with the right
characters in it", though, so the Mozilla-vs-MSIE thing above doesn't
apply :)

(Just because you used the right entity doesn't magically enable the
browser to display the character.)

Cheers,
Philip
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Philip Newton <Philip.Newton@...>