Re: Symbol Font correct on IE, but gibberish on FireFox

Ο "Raymond SCHMIT" <Raymond.Schmit@xxxxxxxxxxx> έγραψε στο μήνυμα
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On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:07:56 +0200, "Jukka K. Korpela"
<jkorpela@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I.N. Galidakis wrote:

Unfortuately at this point I cannot convert any of
my webpages to UTF-8, so I will contend with just putting a warning
on my math pages for non-IE users.

It's not just non-IE users. Anyone with IE set to ignore font settings on
web pages (common among people with reduced eyesight), or with additional
software plugged into IE for converting content to speech or Braille, or
with a system with Symbol font removed (it's a lousy font really) will see
the real characters on your page, as opposite to their "fontistic"
misrepresentations.

I realize that converting to UTF-8 can be laborious (since you would have to
replace characters with font declarations into the characters they are meant
to stand for), but it could in fact be automated, and you could
alternatively use character references.


What he can do is:
Display your beautifull page in your IE brower then print it to a
pdf-printer. then upload the resulted pdf file and let a link pointing
to it.So *everybody* will be able to look at your work and print it if
needed.

Thanks. What I did was to trash all the symbol characters and emulate all
symbols using regular html in all my math pages.

Again, thanks to all who responded.
---
I.N. Galidakis


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