Re: [gentoo-user] Browsers not seeing symbol font

2009-03-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 1:35 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Paul Hartman > wrote: >> After a bit of Googling, it seems the accepted solution is to use HTML >> entities for those symbols and not try to use the raw characters as >> you are attempting to do. >> >> http

Re: [gentoo-user] Browsers not seeing symbol font

2009-03-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >>> 2. Character encodings are easy: use Unicode. :) >>> http://www.unicode.org/charts/symbols.html >> >> Yes they're easy.  My question is about whether they have any effect >> on use

Re: [gentoo-user] Browsers not seeing symbol font

2009-03-25 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:38:31 -0700 "Kevin O'Gorman" wrote: >> 2. Character encodings are easy: use Unicode. :) >> http://www.unicode.org/charts/symbols.html > > Yes they're easy. My question is about whether they have any effect > on use of Symbol So far I see no evidence of it. They shouldn

Re: [gentoo-user] Browsers not seeing symbol font

2009-03-25 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 7:50 AM, Paul Hartman >> 1. "Symbol" is not a defined CSS font family. Your choices are: serif, >> sans-serif, cursive, fantasy, monospace. > > I've changed the CSS to use the font-family property which accepts > act

Re: [gentoo-user] Browsers not seeing symbol font

2009-03-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 7:50 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> I have discovered that the symbol font does not render reliably in >> browsers.  Only one of my audience (of about a dozen people) could see >> the font properly, in a variety of brows

Re: [gentoo-user] Browsers not seeing symbol font

2009-03-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 7:15 AM, Albert Hopkins wrote: > ... not sure what this really has to do with Gentoo specifically, but... > > Anyway I don't have a font called "Symbol" or any font alias called > "Symbol".  I do, however, have a font called "Wingdings", for example. The situation is the s

Re: [gentoo-user] Browsers not seeing symbol font

2009-03-25 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I have discovered that the symbol font does not render reliably in > browsers. Only one of my audience (of about a dozen people) could see > the font properly, in a variety of browsers. The one who could is > using Firefox, and I have not

Re: [gentoo-user] Browsers not seeing symbol font

2009-03-25 Thread Albert Hopkins
... not sure what this really has to do with Gentoo specifically, but... Anyway I don't have a font called "Symbol" or any font alias called "Symbol". I do, however, have a font called "Wingdings", for example.

[gentoo-user] Browsers not seeing symbol font

2009-03-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I have discovered that the symbol font does not render reliably in browsers. Only one of my audience (of about a dozen people) could see the font properly, in a variety of browsers. The one who could is using Firefox, and I have not been able to determine what makes this one special -- I do not h