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 1LmjBn-00080L-OA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 06:35:43 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2B6DCE0848; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 06:35:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from yw-out-1718.google.com (yw-out-1718.google.com [74.125.46.157]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C7B1E0848 for ; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 06:35:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yw-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 5so292286ywm.46 for ; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:35:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=RnmB+LByNMaPDoZ3LbhqS4ruq3X2yjoS4x2gd1O2HDk=; b=I2IxCFh0H4EZz5oYMm/YVO2NTZxSUCDAtoyODiaNI6ZygiWr3HvCEoreEzHf1owbuv o+Hl8+wcnyPmR9MMwjICFtZjn9Y+mE1+Q/f36IIAJelx02kM0oz+onMNWHZ4/irVvDr0 R0CM7GXkDcp3RUsHbBcZ4cI4au6I3YH5w556M= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=MwoCNu8qsZzf75DNNuhcjLilCiF6ynwCtssMGMHFVKE/VSvHRFf0htH7+42513HAwA p9B49xGZqfLvojGCz+OqEt8VyM+pmmFT96yL0c8bL7f5cnqe0QvLnimjP7Y9BzmS5/Tc aqph7DQa0XS3RbjEWRyOFKkdfMWj0t3pr/dI0= 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 10.231.10.140 with SMTP id p12mr108175ibp.38.1238049341494; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:35:41 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <58965d8a0903251133u4b6603aalb6d17c3c1748d706@mail.gmail.com> References: <9acccfe50903250702y7f6869f0xfd0e28002d4ca9c0@mail.gmail.com> <58965d8a0903250750t5f835b5ar999498ecec078bae@mail.gmail.com> <9acccfe50903250938h618c3409w451cfbb7a1738ff8@mail.gmail.com> <58965d8a0903251133u4b6603aalb6d17c3c1748d706@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:35:41 -0700 Message-ID: <9acccfe50903252335y1af634fep13290bfd27715d1d@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [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: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 67584e10-7f93-4d02-a805-7c986e3af1a1 X-Archives-Hash: d0ca086f863401ea09b4328506ee64f1 On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wro= te: >>> 2. Character encodings are easy: use Unicode. :) >>> http://www.unicode.org/charts/symbols.html >> >> Yes they're easy. =A0My question is about whether they have any effect >> on use of Symbol =A0So 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_refere= nces > > 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 -- compositio= n 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 --=20 Kevin O'Gorman, PhD