We're developing a publishing system for our hydrographic notices. We need
to include a number of industry / office specific symbols (wrecks, various
buoys etc.), which we hold in the office within a "home made" font.
In the past, we have included these in word processor documents by
specifying the font, but it seems more sensible with Unicode to place them
in the Private Use Area, and refer to them by character code (or by our own
named entities within the XML context in which we're now developing, which
will translate to the numeric entities).
The applications will be running on our intranet, so we can control the
client environments (fonts installed, versions of other software, etc.).
It all seemed quite simple.
But, when I actually view the document with Internet Explorer (5.5 or 6), I
don't see the characters I want. I can select my font in the Tools/Internet
Options/Fonts dialogue, for "Language script: User Defined", but all I get
to see are empty squares.
Is there something I'm missing, or will we have to continue to wrap our
special characters in HTML Font face= tags? - which works fine, but seems to
bypass the point of using Unicode
I've tried posting this question on Microsoft's Internet Explorer forums,
but haven't received any reply.
Help or advice would be appreciated.
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