Posted by Harlan Messinger on 03/08/06 07:12

Alan J. Flavell wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Dylan Parry wrote:
>
> [IE]
>> doesn't appear to support ⁎ or ⁎ either, so I would
>> guess that you are pretty much out of luck.
>
[snip]
> Hmmm, looks to me as if Moz. and Opera found it, in this particular
> setup, in the font Aboriginal Sans. Yup, if I reconfigure MSIE to use
> Aboriginal Sans as its default "Latin" font, this character appears,
> and it (and its neighbours) look just like the ones which Mozilla and
> Opera had found.

Don't be too quick to praise Firefox and Opera. I noticed that ∗
and &#8270 weren't displaying as the same character. I tried this:

<p>|&lowast;|&lowast;|&lowast;|&lowast;|</p>
<p>|&#8270;|&#8270;|&#8270;|&#8270;|</p>
<p>|&#8727;|&#8727;|&#8727;|&#8727;|</p>

and found that Firefox and Opera were assigning &lowast to &#8727;,
"asterisk operator", rather than to &#8270;, "low asterisk". Or so it
seems from their respective appearances.

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