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 1LmXvI-00029b-KS for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:33:57 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6DD2CE085C; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:33:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qy0-f108.google.com (mail-qy0-f108.google.com [209.85.221.108]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46EA9E085C for ; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:33:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk6 with SMTP id 6so335837qyk.32 for ; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:33:55 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=WyzP5NFkBLj4zuDWy+PLz7ud/k90C8GxtNnFnOQjouk=; b=pIBCv9+iurnnjHyoQ/RWESD3KKJPQlEzY1iRmIk+oZ36AcB+6OWH35smXVqwD7KBBO 10RHQpp4LbUD3xC7hx+tr9Y9ePFQSJ74jw1RHLXCw5jJ40l/ystU9y5u2cpIMUzDl3+l ZX646qBfp6E9PtawmPX0rc/NuQawKWDPfHYqA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=HlOT41jNoeKSo6sBBFjpbOKXbrtDAudPrlGYsqd+l3qr2NH8FqyaM2Taa47cpIyCNa H99Xhx1cc4M44/v5hICdHXppyM6Co+ZRX5emjfAat8zE1IjruB3SbxqBP6k60XykQCdM KAQF/IjG1WOynI5ZREC0u0ZrLTHiOCraW84Pw= 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 Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.224.45.204 with SMTP id g12mr13031851qaf.168.1238006034918; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:33:54 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <9acccfe50903250938h618c3409w451cfbb7a1738ff8@mail.gmail.com> References: <9acccfe50903250702y7f6869f0xfd0e28002d4ca9c0@mail.gmail.com> <58965d8a0903250750t5f835b5ar999498ecec078bae@mail.gmail.com> <9acccfe50903250938h618c3409w451cfbb7a1738ff8@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:33:54 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 4d80e91cdf0001bd Message-ID: <58965d8a0903251133u4b6603aalb6d17c3c1748d706@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Browsers not seeing symbol font From: Paul Hartman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: b4500acb-957d-4d01-9a09-02db77858def X-Archives-Hash: 0fb2e44439e627d85961dcc65f73b2b3 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 > 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.