OT FireFox - ascii/html symbols displayed
David G. Miller
dave at davenjudy.org
Sun Apr 8 14:27:47 UTC 2007
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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