On 03/20/2012 11:09 PM, David E. Ross wrote: > On 3/20/12 10:18 PM, Mike C wrote: >> Is there a way to Use Wingdings in SM mail? > > There was an extensive discussion about Wingdings in Web pages, not so > long ago. The conclusion is that, since this is contrary to the HTML > specifications, it is generally NOT allowed. Only those special > characters that are part of the Unicode standard can be represented in > HTML.
@Mike: The thread is "Windings not showed on a html mail" NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 10:44:02 -0500 Start of the thread is: Message-ID: <m5odnsdl0ptfdprtnz2dnuvz_jodn...@mozilla.org> It's a long thread, so take a seat... BTW: you can use Wingdings in linux with appropriate font installed: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/508/screenshotwingdingschar.png/ :-) - U+263A ☺ From one of my posts in that thread:I reckon that Windows users are out of luck given: <http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=0#sclient=psy&hl=en&complete=0&site=webhp&source=hp&q=mozilla+%2Bwingdings+font&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=3e82efc6cc141df0&biw=1280&bih=741> And the ongoing bug reports ('resolved/wontfix et al): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424610 [Wingdings-font characters display incorrectly; fontEncoding.properties hack is gone] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=429017 [symbol font quirk (for <font face=symbol>) not present on Windows even when it is supposed to be] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=450723 [Emoticons from Outlook (using wingdings font) do not display properly in Thunderbird] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90643 [Does not render symbol font as commanded by CSS] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31538 [Mozilla can't display the Webdings font even it is installed on the client (wingdings font, symbol font)] <https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Mozilla_Web_Developer_FAQ#Why_aren.e2.80.99t_symbol.2fdingbat_fonts_working.3f> etc. etc. Maybe switch to linux? :-) Odd since it's usually the linux user that misses 'features' in web browsers. > > Since Wingdings are not supported by plain-text, ASCII-formatted E-mail, > you would need to use HTML-formatted E-mail. You would thus face the > same restrictions imposed by the HTML specifications that apply to Web > pages. > > See: > <http://www.unicode.org/> > <http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/named-character-references.html> > (best viewed with JavaScript disabled before loading and with [View > > Text Zoom > 150%]) > <http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/html/characters.html> > <http://www.alanwood.net/demos/wingdings.html> > _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
