Posted by Cogito on 03/30/07 07:48

On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 09:44:16 +0300, "Jukka K. Korpela"
<jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> wrote:

>You didn't do as _I_ wrote (and as HTML specifications do in their
>examples):
>&#x2655;
>By the specifications, the semicolon is not always required (e.g., in the
>occurrences in the above markup), but it has always been good practice in
>HTML to include it. For some odd reason, IE 7 decided to refuse to recognize
>&#x2655 without the semicolon. Moreover, the semicolon _is_ required in
>XHTML, so maybe you used XHTML on an XHTML-capable browser.
>
>Moreover, you may have missed the font issue I mentioned. So if you have
><td>&#x2655;</td>
>it's useful (for IE) to have
>td { font-family: Arial Unicode MS, Code2000; }
>in your stylesheet.


Now we are cooking with gas. In this format it does work and can be
accessible to any user. Just great. Thanks.

Now I need to understand it better. How did you ascertain that
&#x2655; is a queen? Is there a list somewhere?

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