Middot rendering square

[earfist]

Does anyone know why &middot would render as a square instead of a circle? It is happening in the latest versions of IE, Firefox and Chrome. I'm using an shtml file extension for all pages. Ideas? I'd rather not have to make gifs if I can help it.

[rtrethewey]

It's impossible to say without seeing the code, but it sounds like either your code is somehow invalid or there's a charset mismatch involved. Post the code or a link to a demonstration page.