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Posted by Dylan Parry on 10/25/07 16:55
I've been experimenting with using various different types of dash,
hyphens and other typographical symbols that aren't present on the
keyboard. One thing I came across was an inconsistency in the way that
Internet Explorer 7 displays the hyphen character (not the hyphen-minus,
but a proper hyphen). FWIW, IE6 doesn't appear to display the character
at all.
What I noticed is that the hyphen appears to be placed higher up than it
should be, for example: "up‐to‐date" is rendered correctly in every
browser that I tested, but in IE7 the hyphens are right up at the top of
the words. It's difficult to explain without actually seeing it in
action, so http://dylanparry.com/usenet/hyphen_example.htm shows what I
mean. It happens with any font that I try, so I'm sure it's not a fonts
issue - besides, the same fonts display the character fine in other
browsers.
Can anyone confirm that this is an actual issue, and it's not just
peculiar to my particular set-up? Does the hyphen character appear at
all for anyone else? I ask that last question as it doesn't appear in
IE6 for me, but that's using a virtual machine that has different fonts
installed etc.
Then I started to wonder if there was anything that could be done, and
indeed whether it is actually worth bothering to try doing anything. I
suppose the easiest way would be to use scripting to replace the hyphens
with hyphen-minus characters if using IE. That way, at least people
using other browsers will get the correct typographical symbols.
Actually, the easiest way is of course to just not use hyphen characters
at all, but I'm being picky and want to use them anyway :)
End of Ramblings.
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