Posted by Dung Ping on 12/27/05 22:47

Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
> "Dung Ping" <dungping5@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > I need to put the musical sign for repeat in my web page.
>
> In practice, it is probably best to include it as an image or part of image,
> since writing it as a character isn't very successful.
>
> > I believe
> > there is a unicode for it, but cannot find it in the following chart:
> >
> > http://www.unicode.org/charts/symbols.html
>
> It's in the Musical Symbols block,
> http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1D100.pdf
> You probably mean MUSICAL SYMBOL RIGHT REPEAT SIGN U+1D107, which could be
> written in HTML as &#x1d107;. But according to
> http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1d107/fontsupport.htm
> the only font containing the sign is Code2001, which is both rare (though
> freely available) and typographically awful (especially when font smoothing
> is not enabled). For this character, the typography part is not a problem,
> but the problem is that most computers don't contain Code2001.
>
> Besides, making Unicode characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane
> (i.e., characters with code numbers > FFFF in hexadecimal) work on browsers
> is, at best, possible only through quite some kludgery; see
> http://www.i18nguy.com/unicode-example-plane1.html
>

Thanks a lot for the information.

Dung Ping

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