Posted by Animesh K on 10/25/07 20:21

Dylan Parry wrote:
> I've been experimenting with using various different types of dash,
> hyphens and other typographical symbols that aren't present on the
> keyboard. One thing I came across was an inconsistency in the way that
> Internet Explorer 7 displays the hyphen character (not the hyphen-minus,
> but a proper hyphen). FWIW, IE6 doesn't appear to display the character
> at all.
>
> What I noticed is that the hyphen appears to be placed higher up than it
> should be, for example: "up‐to‐date" is rendered correctly in every
> browser that I tested, but in IE7 the hyphens are right up at the top of
> the words. It's difficult to explain without actually seeing it in
> action, so http://dylanparry.com/usenet/hyphen_example.htm shows what I
> mean. It happens with any font that I try, so I'm sure it's not a fonts
> issue - besides, the same fonts display the character fine in other
> browsers.
>

The up-to-date hyphens are higher in Thunderbird too. You may want to
check if you are using the correct characters. It could be a font family
issue too (?). May be Jukka can clarify on that.

Best,
A

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