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gizmo
05-31-2003, 07:20 AM
On my website I had something like:
Caption --> [IMG] to label a picture, so I thought I would be clever and replace the '-->' with → to give a nicer arrow. However although it is fine on screen, when I came to print the page the arrow was replaced by a square, a space and an '@' which suggests to me that there is some sort of font problem. Any ideas anyone ?
Dark Dragon
05-31-2003, 09:52 AM
Okay...I am by no means an expert but HTML language is different from the language used by word processing programs like WordPerfect....
So certain special characters probably wonb't be recognized by your printer then.
I imagine there would be a way to download special font or something for the printer to utilize...
Be sure to set a charset for your HTML document.
Jona
Dark Dragon
05-31-2003, 10:45 AM
I thought CHARSET was pretty standard setting in HTML:confused:...if not automatic....
The charset required to use the arrow character that gizmo wants. The browser automatically has a charset set, but if you use a character that is not in that charset in the document, it will not display properly, which is why you should use a META tag to define the charset.
I'm not sure if this works, because I don't commonly try to print things out; however if it does not work, there should be an at-rule for print media to specify this in CSS (possibly).
Jona
gizmo
05-31-2003, 12:46 PM
I have been using the line
<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> in the header. Perhaps I should try a different one.