Posted by Animesh K on 09/18/07 23:08

Animesh K wrote:
> Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
>> Animesh K wrote:
>>
>>> Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
>>>> Andrew S. wrote:
>>>>> Fonts which way do you believe it is better to use in html a "%" or
>>>>> a "pt"?
>>>> http://k75s.home.att.net/fontsize.html
>>> Actually IE 6.0 has has problems in displaying diacritics (characters
>>> with a dot-below the alphabet) with "Trebuchet MS". I prefer Tahoma
>>> over Trebuchet for that reason.
>>
>> Didn't know that, as I don't use diacritics in any of my pages.
>>
>
> Link this for a proof:
>
> http://stutimandal.blogspot.com/2007/09/totakastakam.html
>
> This page shows fine in FF or Opera. Safari/IE7.0 put slightly bigger
> replacement characters. And IE 6.0 just fails.
>
> I guess Trebuchet MS lacks the diacritics fonts. (though it is just a
> dot above/below the regularly ASCII alphabets).
>
> Best,
> A

And here the same text displays fine in IE 6.0 with Tahoma

http://www.stutimandal.com/new/poemgen.php?id=33

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