OT FireFox - ascii/html symbols displayed

[David G. Miller]

Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:

> On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 15:04 -0400, linuxmaillists at charter.net wrote:
>> > Most of the ascii/html symbols display correctly in FF on 
>> > Linux but some don't (even less display correctly on 
>> > Windows). Is there any kind of plugin or extension 
>> > available to get the rest of them to display?
>> > 
>> > Examples:
>> > 
>> >  shows rectangle box with a 007F number inside it.
>> >      show a diamond with a ? 
>> > inside it.
>>     
You may find this link helpful:

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_entities.asp

Everything below   is dependent on which fonts and character sets 
FF knows about (See View -> Character Encoding).  You run into problems 
when the original was not created using a font FF knows about or is not 
correctly specified in the page.  You can sometimes "fix" the problem of 
a page not correctly specifying the font by forcing FF to use the 
correct font for the page through the View -> Character Encoding menu 
item (e.g., you know what language was used when the page was created).

Cheers,
Dave

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