I have rather a peculiar problem. It's NOT the usual problem with web pages written with numeric entities between 129 and 159 from Microsoft Window's CP1252. At first I thought it was, but then I realised that a lot of web pages I was viewing in Mozilla 1.0.0 were displaying incorrectly despite the fact that were using the *correct* named/decima/hex entites to include em and en dashes and curly/smart quotes.
I thought that perhaps this was a general problem, but I went to this page: http://www.hclrss.demon.co.uk/demos/ent4_frame.html and could see that in fact all of characters in the right frame display correctly EXCEPT a few punctuation characters, such as dashes and quote marks. I have put up a web page listing the characters together with a screenshot of how they are displaying in my browser: http://www.dzr-web.com/unicode-test.html This is weird. Non latin scripts, such as Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic and various East Asian scripts display properly. I have installed the Microsoft True Type Core Web Fonts, using Mandrake's drakfont utility (I'm using Mandrake 8.1). Why would just these few characters not display properly? It's also frustrating because those characters are very commonly used (for instance, see http://www.alistapart.com/ ). I don't know whether it is a Mozilla problem or a problem with how my fonts have been set up, but I suspect that it is the latter (I doubt Mozilla 1.0.0 would have been released without this problem being spotted). I've been searching google for something about this and can't find anything. Does anyone have a clue what might be the problem? TIA for any help anyone might be able to offer. Best, Darren P.S. I thought it might be a problem with my preferences, so I created a test user and let Mozilla start up with its out of the box defaults and the problem recurred. So I guess it is either my font setup or Mozilla. -- ====================================================================== D. D. Brierton [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.dzr-web.com Trying is the first step before failure (Homer Simpson) ======================================================================
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