I don't have any problem in Firefox (11) with your example page, but there is a problem in Chromium.
It seems that Chromium ignores the character encoding set in the page and uses its own encoding. Try setting the browser default encoding to UTF-8 (NB This may reveal problems in other pages if the developer has not used the correct entities and not used the appropriate character encoding, so in Chromium you may better selecting Auto Detect in the Encoding menu.) In Firefox it's Edit>Preferences>Content>Fonts & Colours>Advanced In Chromium it's Spanner>Tools>Encoding Regards, Steve On 3 April 2012 11:17, Matthew Sturdy <matt.stu...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 3 April 2012 11:39, Colin Law <clan...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> On 3 April 2012 10:28, Matthew Sturdy <matt.stu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> So it is not in fact using the html entity. Having said that it does >> look fine for me (Firefox 11.10 in Ubuntu 12.04). >> I don't know what to suggest I am afraid. >> >> Thanks Colin! > > i have made a simple example here http://msturdy.net/example.html, to > demonstrate what I think is wrong... > > ...and here is how it looks... > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10355152/example-new.png > > Do you think that there is an issue with the installed Helvetica font? > > > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > > -- *Please reconsider sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html* https://launchpad.net/~bouncysteve
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