Re: New tutorial on APL Wiki web site

On Sep 30, 6:10 pm, micro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
David

I'm sorry you're having problems. Internet Explorer does seem to
struggle with displaying code correctly when other browsers work fine.

That said, I checked every version of IE I could lay my hands on under
XP and Vista, and they all worked OK for me. I even tried removing one
of the APL fonts and checking that the other was used instead.

The choice of font is determined by the Wiki's style *** (CSS). It's
set to try APLX Upright first, then APL385 Unicode, and then Arial.

Presumably you don't get APL characters anywhere in the Wiki? How
about other web pages like Vector (which uses APL385 Unicode)? Also,
are you able to try another browser like FireFox?

If anyone can shed some light on this I'd be interested to hear the
answer.

Blimey. Excellent contribution!

But I'm having display problems too, and I *definitely* have APL385
Unicode installed. In both Firefox and Chrome http://aplteam2.com/aplwiki/LearnApl/AplVariables
I see „ („) where I expect to see an assignment arrow.

Firebug confirms the font is being determined by the CSS rule as you
describe, and disabling the rule changes the font without fixing the
problem. The HTML head declares UTF-8 encoding. When I save the page
to my desktop and open it, Notepad2 detects UTF-8 encoding. All seems
well here.

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/sgml/entities.html#h-24.2.1 might be
helpful:

<!ENTITY larr CDATA "&#8592;" -- leftwards arrow, U+2190 ISOnum --


In hex display, UltraEdit shows me the „ from the page as U+201E. A
left arrow typed or pasted next to it shows as U+2190.

It looks as if the wrong character is in the page source.

Stephen

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