Fonts?

Tue May 25 19:04:08 UTC 2004

Doh, I didn't think of that!  I guess I was thinking that it was an OS 
problem because I didn't see the issue until I switched from my NT 
server to my RHEL server.

Thanks so much!

donna

Vidiot wrote:

>>From: "Donna Appleget" <donna.appleget at chattanoogastate.edu>
>>
>>>I am having a strange thing happening.  I have some Spanish punctuation
>>>on a web page.  It looks fine within Frontpage but when I go to the site
>>>using the web browser...the symbols are missing.
>>>
>>>http://library.chattanoogastate.edu/research/ref3.htm
>>>
>>>¡Informe!(Revistas en Español) is what is should look like.
>>>
>>>Anyone have an idea what is going on with this?
>>>
>>>Thanks!
>>
>>I'm using I.E. 6.0 at work.  When I u
> 
> se the default UTF-8 encoding, the n
> 
>>with the tilde above it doesn't show.  When I change the encoding to Western
>>European (ISO), it works.  You probably need to check on the charset.
>>You're set to Western (ISO-8859-1), you probably need to experiment with
>>other charsets.
>>Ben
> 
> 
> That is all well and good for the person putting the page together.  That won't
> help for others viewing the page.
> 
> You need to use the HTML special character codes.  For example, the n with the
> tilde above it is "&ntil
> de;".  Unfortunately, I do not see one for the 
> upside down exclamation point.  You can declare the character set as part of
> the doc header that comes before the <HTML> tag (example):
> 
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Frameset//EN"
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/frameset.dtd">
> 
> Take a look at the HTML spec for this line and declaring the character set
> encoding.  You'll find all the info to make your web page HTML compliant at
> w3.org.
> 
> BTW, just because you declare the character encoding d
> oesn't mean that the
> browser will read the DOCTYPE tag and use it.
> 
> Welcome to the world of trying to create HTML compliant web pages.
> 
> MB

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