Can you say please whether the font that you are using has the characters
assigned to private use area code points within the font itself?
If one uses Microsoft Word 97 to prepare a document file then uses Save
as HTML then if the codes are in the font, then the numbers for the codes
should appear in the HTML source code that is produced.
A way to observe what happens with the use of private use area
characters is to use Microsoft Word 97 to produce a document where an fi
ligature character is added from the Insert | Symbol dialogue box. Some
fonts have fi in twice, once in the private use area and once in the
alphabetic presentation forms. A good test is to include both versions of
the fi ligature in the document and observe the source code of the HTML file
that is produced.
William Overington
15 April 2002
-----Original Message-----
From: Parslow Peter <Peter.Parslow@ukho.gov.uk>
To: 'unicode@unicode.org' <unicode@unicode.org>
Date: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 2:10 PM
Subject: Getting Private Use Area characters to display in Internet
Explorer
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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