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 1LmThs-00035Z-AX for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:03:48 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5F407E0193; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:02:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com (rv-out-0708.google.com [209.85.198.247]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33DE2E01A8 for ; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:02:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id k29so2120871rvb.2 for ; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 07:02:51 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=dGbYdKpKgbOBGr8lJESefvw3EFvp61EpyJCexfbqtOo=; b=doyLaip3oEkp103l4fEfu79wzrBy6Vi7H4uil6JS7IwkYu1B6nUpD7LbPru0VgbW16 rlxyiHlbHCDgCRVHLIox+XbGsvtWG2miI1vgu7gayUf/2z0tlC2VrSUddQ3xWxvDHPh2 LEb7M1/GEF+UKkQ/3h6Gf51okH+1PB0e9afZI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=Q8H1FPXHiwY62DU/SKD5Hs6GQBWQQukBaFv5F3/XxxjqAw0zgJ1D8m8WkDu3JC1LpT Wa/SSbhIPABJzD7Hvb2Qi8TuzVmCP1Zt4vV7i3nkS/i98v2r09N7dBwF8YaU37fLP2x8 01qVkiyEzDAjxvHFs/hL3Jnpt33urubgLLAFc= 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 Received: by 10.141.76.1 with SMTP id d1mr3607411rvl.110.1237989771756; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 07:02:51 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 07:02:51 -0700 Message-ID: <9acccfe50903250702y7f6869f0xfd0e28002d4ca9c0@mail.gmail.com> Subject: [gentoo-user] Browsers not seeing symbol font From: "Kevin O'Gorman" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 6b4d5391-e5b4-44de-be45-976c58368810 X-Archives-Hash: 145d9ee5ce9157a58a0a702967d13be3 I have discovered that the symbol font does not render reliably in browsers. Only one of my audience (of about a dozen people) could see the font properly, in a variety of browsers. The one who could is using Firefox, and I have not been able to determine what makes this one special -- I do not have access to that machine to check out configurations. I have a very simple HTML example at http://www.kosmanor.com/~kevin/symbol.html. By rights it should show "The quick brown fox" transliterated into greek letters. On most browsers set up for English, it seems to come out in latin letters, but there are no latin letter in that font, although these same browsers honor requests for a variety of other fonts. This is true even on some machines that definitely have the symbol font, and it's usable in word processing documents. Of course, that sample page is ancient HTML, but the problem first surfaced in HTML email being received on a much more sophisticated page by Yahoo Mail. There's a lot I don't know about character encodings, i18n and the rest, but this still seems discrimination against the symbol font. Any clues out there? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD