We're developing a publishing system for our hydrographic notices. We need to include a number of industry / office specific symbols (wrecks, various buoys etc.), which we hold in the office within a "home made" font.
In the past, we have included these in word processor documents by specifying the font, but it seems more sensible with Unicode to place them in the Private Use Area, and refer to them by character code (or by our own named entities within the XML context in which we're now developing, which will translate to the numeric entities).
The applications will be running on our intranet, so we can control the client environments (fonts installed, versions of other software, etc.).
It all seemed quite simple.
But, when I actually view the document with Internet Explorer (5.5 or 6), I don't see the characters I want. I can select my font in the Tools/Internet Options/Fonts dialogue, for "Language script: User Defined", but all I get to see are empty squares.
Is there something I'm missing, or will we have to continue to wrap our special characters in HTML Font face= tags? - which works fine, but seems to bypass the point of using Unicode
I've tried posting this question on Microsoft's Internet Explorer forums, but haven't received any reply.
Help or advice would be appreciated.
