On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Jukka K. Korpela <jkorp...@cs.tut.fi> wrote:
> On the theoretical side: because these "characters" are dingbats, i.e. > specific graphics encoded as characters in a technical sense but not true > text characters. > > On the practical side: because they mostly _don't_ exist in fonts. See the > short font list at > http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2776/fontsupport.htm > People's computers may have other fonts containing dingbats, but a) the > appearances may be surprising and b) those fonts may have non-Unicode > encodings. > > -- > Yucca, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/ Good info. I'm not sure of the meaning of those characters, though. Do they have the same meaning as regular numbers? This wikipedia article doesn't say: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosed_Alphanumerics The characters were rendered correctly in my Ubuntu computer. It has MS's free core fonts installed. In any case, the use of these characters is limited because while the color of the shaded circle can be changed, the color of the letter can only be changed using background-color which changes the color of the entire line box. ~Chetan ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
