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"→" with IE 6.0.x under Win XP gives no right arrow

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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bye Stephan...
Jul 20 '05 #1
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In post <bf************@ID-74774.news.uni-berlin.de>
Stephan Koser said...
on my website i have some $rarr; tags [...]


no such animal. try &rarr; or → entities
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Jul 20 '05 #2

"Stephan Koser" <no************@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 a kind of a star.
How can I get a right arrow for all browsers and os?


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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Jul 20 '05 #3

"brucie" <br******@loser.brucies.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:xf**************@alt-html.org...
In post <bf************@ID-74774.news.uni-berlin.de>
Stephan Koser said...
on my website i have some $rarr; tags [...]


no such animal. try &rarr; or → entities


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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bye Stephan...
Jul 20 '05 #4

"Jukka K. Korpela" <jk******@cs.tut.fi> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:Xn*****************************@193.229.0.31. ..
"Stephan Koser" <no************@web.de> wrote:
on my website i have some $rarr; tags


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.
- that shows usually a right arrow.


It usually does, and it should, but support is not universal.
Now I have Windows XP Professional and IE 6.0.x and it shows
a square with a kind of a star.


In that environment, I'd guess it's a font problem. But does it happen
for all fonts?


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

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bye Stephan...
Jul 20 '05 #5
"Stephan Koser" <no************@web.de> wrote:
X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158
Please apply http://piology.org/news/oe-erste-schritte.html .
Thank you!
I tried it with arial, verdana, times and lucida console. Always the same
result.


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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Jul 20 '05 #6
In article <26*************************@rrzn-user.uni-hannover.de>
in comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html, Andreas Prilop
<nh******@rrzn-user.uni-hannover.de> wrote:
You should use → because this works even in Netscape 4.08 (as
long as you set "charset=UTF-8").


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

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Jul 20 '05 #7
Stan Brown <th************@fastmail.fm> wrote:
You should use → because this works even in Netscape 4.08 (as
long as you set "charset=UTF-8").


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


Right.
Jul 20 '05 #8
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.
http://blocknote.net
http://terra-informatica.org


Jul 20 '05 #9

"Andrew Fedoniouk" <an****@terra-informatica.org> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:fA***********************@news2.calgary.shaw. ca...
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?


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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bye Stephan...
Jul 20 '05 #10

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