Re: Background image position and <pre>/<code> tag question

On Sun, 26 Mar 2006, Toby Inkster wrote:

Monospaced fonts are mostly only used for coding examples, which
generally only need ASCII characters anyway.

That may be your opinion, and often also mine; but I do think other
authors may have a different attitude, and I don't think it's our
place to refuse them. I was asked for help by someone who wanted
their Polytonic Greek to appear correctly as they wanted it in
monospaced, to take one example.

And when a glyph is missing, the browser *should* substitute in a
glyph from another font anyway. (Of course, not all browsers are
smart enough.)

Indeed it should, and some browsers do a decent job of it; but MSIE
evidently has quite some way to go yet (anyone care to comment on any
improvements to this issue IE7? - I've no real plans to beta it
myself).

Be that as it may, it's preferable if all the characters needed for a
particular piece of text can come from the same font.

.

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