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Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on March 7, 2005, 6:06 pm
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laredotornado@zipmail.com wrote:
> Does anyone know why the unicode character sets for subsripts five
> through 8 would not show up on IE?
IE is notorius for its unwillingness to play properly with characters.
> on PC IE 6.0 and Mac IE 5.2 and the subscript for 8 never appears
> (the code is ₈) but on Mozilla on both platforms, everything
> looks good.
Right. Roughly speaking, IE shows the character only if the _current
font_ contains a glyph for it. Most fonts on IE don't contain the
subscript eight character, see
http://www.cs.tut.fi/cgi-bin/run/~jkorpela/char.cgi?code=2088
so IE fails, unless you have set it to use a font line Arial Unicode MS
by default.
> Is there another code I should use or tag I should include on my
> page?
<sub>8</sub>
This causes some problems of its own, especially thanks to browser
differences in rendering and uneven line spacing, but they can usually
be dealt with in CSS tolerably, see
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/math/#subsup
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