On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogor...@gmail.com> 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. > > Okay, now I realize "Symbol" is the name of a specific font. I hadn't > really picked up on that before :) > > 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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_XML_and_HTML_character_entity_references > > Does that contain all of the symbols you need? If there are any > others, you should be able to use the unicode versions. Sigh. My stuff is not for a mass audience. I can expect them to install a font, and I'd really not like to be fooling with entities that much -- composition is laborious. It's really annoying to me to have a font on my own system that is inacessable through browser features that were apparently designed to allow just that. And Unicode is a complete mystery to me. I see stuff come in and display as it should, but as an author it's just something I've never used. How do you compose such stuff on a standard US-English keyboard and system? I'll do what I have to do, but only when I'm convinced it's the best alternative. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
