Hi,

on my website i have some $rarr; tags - that shows usually a right arrow.
Now I have Windows XP Professional and IE 6.0.x and it shows a square with a
kind of a star.
How can I get a right arrow for all browsers and os?

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Stephan Koser said...
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> on my website i have some $rarr; tags [...][/color]

no such animal. try &rarr; or → entities


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"Stephan Koser" <no-skoser-spam@web.de> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> on my website i have some $rarr; tags - that shows usually a right arrow.
> Now I have Windows XP Professional and IE 6.0.x and it shows a square with[/color]
a[color=blue]
> kind of a star.
> How can I get a right arrow for all browsers and os?[/color]

A "tag" is an element combined with its attributes.
What you're discussing is (er, would be) a character entity.
it is &rarr; or →


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"brucie" <brucie01@loser.brucies.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> In post <bftls5$iucj1$1@ID-74774.news.uni-berlin.de>
> Stephan Koser said...
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> > on my website i have some $rarr; tags [...][/color]
>
> no such animal. try &rarr; or → entities[/color]

ah, sorry - I meant &rarr;
The Browser doesn't show a right arrow but a curios square an H in left
upper corner and an star in the lower right.
→ shows it too.

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"Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:Xns93C492EF5A201jkorpelacstutfi@193.229.0.31. ..[color=blue]
> "Stephan Koser" <no-skoser-spam@web.de> wrote:
>[color=green]
> > on my website i have some $rarr; tags[/color]
>
> You probably meant &rarr;. And to correct the corrections posted by
> others, &rarr; is an entity reference, and the corresponding construct,
> which works a little more often, →, is a character reference.
>[color=green]
> > - that shows usually a right arrow.[/color]
>
> It usually does, and it should, but support is not universal.
>[color=green]
> > Now I have Windows XP Professional and IE 6.0.x and it shows
> > a square with a kind of a star.[/color]
>
> In that environment, I'd guess it's a font problem. But does it happen
> for all fonts?[/color]

I tried it with arial, verdana, times and lucida console. Always the same
result.

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"Stephan Koser" <no-skoser-spam@web.de> wrote:
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> X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158[/color]

Please apply http://piology.org/news/oe-erste-schritte.html .
Thank you!
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> I tried it with arial, verdana, times and lucida console. Always the same
> result.[/color]

You should use → because this works even in Netscape 4.08 (as
long as you set "charset=UTF-8").
Now to your problem: What do you see at
http://www.unics.uni-hannover.de/nht...thematics.html
Could you make a screen shot available?

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In article <260720031750348669%nhtcapri@rrzn-user.uni-hannover.de>
in comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html, Andreas Prilop
<nhtcapri@rrzn-user.uni-hannover.de> wrote:[color=blue]
>You should use → because this works even in Netscape 4.08 (as
>long as you set "charset=UTF-8").[/color]

Just to clarify, by "you" you mean the page author, right?

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Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> wrote:
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>> You should use → because this works even in Netscape 4.08 (as
>> long as you set "charset=UTF-8").[/color]
>
> Just to clarify, by "you" you mean the page author, right?[/color]

Right.

Hi Stephan.

I guess that your problem is in encodings.

Symptoms like attempt to see UTF-8 string as ascii.

I guess you are using some ASP/PHP/C++, etc. modules for generation of your
html.

Am I right?

Andrew.
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"Andrew Fedoniouk" <andrew@terra-informatica.org> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Hi Stephan.
>
> I guess that your problem is in encodings.
>
> Symptoms like attempt to see UTF-8 string as ascii.
>
> I guess you are using some ASP/PHP/C++, etc. modules for generation of[/color]
your[color=blue]
> html.
>
> Am I right?[/color]

Yes, you'r right. I generate the page with PHP. But I have also some static
html pages, and the result is the same.
The Browser is set to western iso, but even when I set ist to Unicode
(UTF-8) I get this curios sign.
With Opera and Netscape i get the right sign.

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