Posted by Philip Semanchuk on 06/12/06 16:20

In article <j0iq825a4h2mf1n9e6mu2hv2ds2b3cr4l7@4ax.com>,
Sid Ismail <elsid@nospam.co.za> wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 11:35:52 +0100, "Alan J. Flavell"
> <flavell@physics.gla.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> : Well, there's quite a bit wrong with both pages, but none of the
> : faults seem to be quite the one that you're complaining about, and the
> : "Subject" header is still **VERY** misleading, as there is no use of a
> : "Symbol encoding" nor a Symbol font in here (which would anyway be
> : bogus in proper HTML).
>
>
> OK - subject line should be "&spade not displayed as a spade"
>
> Is there anything I need to do/install on my PC to correct it?

Sid,
As we've discovered, some browsers will display these the way you want
them to and some won't. Whether or not you can cajole your PC into
displaying them is kind of beside the point, unless you expect everyone
who visits your Web page to do the same thing to their PC (assuming they
even have a PC). This might be the case for you; perhaps you're just
creating a Web game for your family to play or something like that. But
if you're creating a page for use by the general public, it will be
broken for a significant portion of your visitors.

Learning how to fix the problem on your PC might be enlightening as far
as understanding the root of the problem (I'm curious as to whether it
is a font issue or not) but it probably won't solve the larger problem
of how you can get these symbols to display on a Web page. Methinks you
will have to resort to graphics.

HTH

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Philip
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