From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LmY6N-0003Zo-Ro for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:45:24 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 49A8EE0835; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:45:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.fraggod.net (unknown [91.191.238.58]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0203BE0835 for ; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:45:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from coercion (coercion.core [IPv6:2001:470:1f0b:11de::13]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.fraggod.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id F34A8102496 for ; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:45:20 +0500 (YEKT) Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:41:55 +0500 From: Mike Kazantsev To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Browsers not seeing symbol font Message-ID: <20090325234155.24b56924@coercion> In-Reply-To: <9acccfe50903250938h618c3409w451cfbb7a1738ff8@mail.gmail.com> References: <9acccfe50903250702y7f6869f0xfd0e28002d4ca9c0@mail.gmail.com> <58965d8a0903250750t5f835b5ar999498ecec078bae@mail.gmail.com> <9acccfe50903250938h618c3409w451cfbb7a1738ff8@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.1 (GTK+ 2.14.7; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/2eb53eHO/7Lu+qEq1n4dug1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 7bf45c0a-a2f0-493b-85f0-74e25e067514 X-Archives-Hash: 08dd97b846e733a9ee9fbe1555bd53ca --Sig_/2eb53eHO/7Lu+qEq1n4dug1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 =20 > > 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't, since such fonts' glyphs aren't aligned with any encoding afaik - it'd be rubbish, at best. > It works in MS Works, Dreamweaver and on Gentoo, in OpenOffice. Well, it also works for me, if I change 'Symbol' to 'Luxi Mono', for example, which is a valid font name on my system. Since handling of such stuff as font-family is defined by browser, it's at best unwise to rely on 'Symbol' font definition, and, while IE6 is still around, even more so. You can use any decent font-rendering library to make browser-independent representation of such stuff, which is probably the only solution if you care whether end-user can see it or not. --=20 Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net --Sig_/2eb53eHO/7Lu+qEq1n4dug1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAknKevgACgkQASbOZpzyXnEruQCfZtVTbZwBA1EV3YKablrJqq4W TZEAoMrb8PK/7oYVMtp7xYI+4wCIX0mQ =6Dfi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/2eb53eHO/7Lu+qEq1n4dug1--