Can you say please whether the font that you are using has the characters assigned to private use area code points within the font itself?
If one uses Microsoft Word 97 to prepare a document file then uses Save as HTML then if the codes are in the font, then the numbers for the codes should appear in the HTML source code that is produced. A way to observe what happens with the use of private use area characters is to use Microsoft Word 97 to produce a document where an fi ligature character is added from the Insert | Symbol dialogue box. Some fonts have fi in twice, once in the private use area and once in the alphabetic presentation forms. A good test is to include both versions of the fi ligature in the document and observe the source code of the HTML file that is produced. William Overington 15 April 2002 -----Original Message----- From: Parslow Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 2:10 PM Subject: Getting Private Use Area characters to display in Internet Explorer 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.
