On 2010-01-21 09:51 James Wilde wrote:
On Jan 21, 2010, at 09:20 , Eustace wrote:
When I open the webpage
http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/miscellaneous_symbols_and_arrows.html
in FF I can see, for example, character ⬑ (U+2B11). However, when I cut and
paste the character in OOo Writer, it does not display it. Normally it copies
and pastes font, size, etc. but in this case it uses the specified default font.
No problems here either in OOo 3.1.1 on Mac running OSX 10.6.2.
No problems in OOo 3.1.1 on Ubuntu 9-10
Cannot show the symbol in Internet Explorer or Chrome on XP SP3, and not in OOo
3.1.1 (haven't bothered d/ling FF to this computer).
//J
That's peculiar. It seems that the ability to display a Unicode
character is depended on a combination of the program with the operating
system.
OOo + Mac/Ubuntu: OK
OOo + XP/Vista: not OK, except with the right font.
FF/TB + Vista: OK
IE + XP/Vista: not OK, except with the right font (I just checked with
Vista)
The inference from the above empirical data seems to be that:
Mac/Ubuntu can (probably) display the character.
Windows does not help to show the character.
*FF/TB can display the character (even) in Windows, irrespective of
default font!*
IE can display the character if right font is selected (just checked).
OOo can display the character if right font is selected.
What impresses me now is the ability of FF/TB to display the character.
How on earth do they do it?
BTW, the first datum is "probably" because I do not know your fonts.
what are your default font in OOo in Ubuntu and in Mac?
emf
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