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

[Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@gmail.com> 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
> actual fonts in addition to the generics you mention.  No joy.

You're right.

>> 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.