Fonts?

Benjamin J. Weiss benjamin at weiss.name
Tue May 25 18:04:38 UTC 2004


From: "Benjamin J. Weiss" <benjamin at weiss.name>
> 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 use 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

Actually, I spoke too quickly.  It looks like you're not setting the charset
at all, which leaves the font rendering up to the browser.  You probably
need to set it in a meta tag.

Ben





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