Smarty Pants: More Unicode Characters

[David Herren]

On Nov 5, 2005, at 7:46 PM, Alastair wrote:


> However it should be noted that some of the unicode substitutes do  

> not have glyphs in the default Windows font set, and/or may not be  

> viewable in IE due to the extremely broken way that it selects  

> glyphs for display.


[snip]


> What may be needed is a set of profiles, each one describing the  

> set of unicode substitutions that are safe for the target audience,  

> (eg Windows/IE, Windows/Firefox, etc) and allow a configurable  

> selection of profile.



The more that breaks in IE, the better for web, no?  ;-)

/david

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