On 7/10/2019 10:08 PM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
> Check out the umlauts here:
> 
> <https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/10/science/skull-neanderthal-human-europe-greece.html>
> 
> For some reason, SM displays them to the right of the target letter, 
> although the source code displays them correctly. It's because the 
> author has used "u" plus the combining umlaut rather than the single 
> letter "ü," thus: "ü."
> 
> So "the University of Tübingen" appears as "the University of 
> Tu¨bingen," and "Rainer Grün" appears as "Rainer Gru¨n."
> 
> I'm not using an odd font here, and they don't specify one. It's 
> plain-vanilla Times Roman.
> 
> Copy/pasting the source code into Notepad, MS Word, or other 
> applications shows that it displays correctly there. Even copy/pasting 
> the text from the badly displayed browser window shows that it displays 
> correctly elsewhere. Only in an SM browser window is the umlaut 
> misplaced. No, wait, IE 11 has the same problem.
> 
> Any idea how to fix this?
> 

It might be fixed if the New York Times would correct the 37 HTML errors
contained in that Web page.

-- 
David E. Ross
<http://www.rossde.com/>

Donald Trump lied his way onto the Forbes 400 richest people list.
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