Posted by Safalra (Stephen Morley) on 10/25/07 18:32

On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:55:10 +0100, Dylan Parry wrote:
> [snip hyphen display in IE]
>
> Can anyone confirm that this is an actual issue, and it's not just
> peculiar to my particular set-up? Does the hyphen character appear at
> all for anyone else? I ask that last question as it doesn't appear in
> IE6 for me, but that's using a virtual machine that has different fonts
> installed etc.


I think the issue is the browser taking the hyphen character from a
different font due to it not being available in the desired font. On my
system, IE6 and IE7 both display the hyphen, and it looks okay in Times New
Roman, but it sticks to the same hyphen character when I change fonts. For
me Mozilla also uses a single hyphen character across a range of fonts, but
one that's short and heavy, and looks very out of place in any of the
common fonts. I suspect that your version of IE is choosing a hyphen from a
particularly ill-suited font - much like my Usenet client, which in an
attempt render your post in a single font ended up with this:


http://www.safalra.com/hotlinkable/hyphen.png


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