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Why does html character #9139 look different on two Flocks?
What would cause extended html character #9139 to display differently on two installations of Flock under Windows?
I have Flock 2.02 installed on two machines, one with Win XP Pro, and one with Win XP Home. I am seeing a difference between these two installations on how some extended HTML characters are displayed. It's character #9139, which should look somewhat like the letter L, which some silly person was using as the letter L to spell out "LOL". On the browser with XP Pro, the character displays correctly, but on the other, it looks like a Chinese character in a box, I think, somewhat at least, or some kind of domino or window shutter. The page source code for this section is somewhat like : smallfont & # 9 1 3 9 ; 0 & # 9 1 3 9
This might well not be a Flock question but maybe someone reading this will know the answer anyway.
Thanks.
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I have Flock 2.02 installed on two machines, one with Win XP Pro, and one with Win XP Home. I am seeing a difference between these two installations on how some extended HTML characters are displayed. It's character #9139, which should look somewhat like the letter L, which some silly person was using as the letter L to spell out "LOL". On the browser with XP Pro, the character displays correctly, but on the other, it looks like a Chinese character in a box, I think, somewhat at least, or some kind of domino or window shutter. The page source code for this section is somewhat like : smallfont & # 9 1 3 9 ; 0 & # 9 1 3 9
This might well not be a Flock question but maybe someone reading this will know the answer anyway.
Thanks.
Here's the wrong and right images:
I’m curious and want to get it fixed.
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Inappropriate?It seems to me that this is more likely due to the character sets in the system fonts you have installed. Perhaps the Win XP Pro machine just has fonts with more complete unicode character sets...?
Do you also see this discrepancy when using, say, Firefox?
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Inappropriate?I found this discrepancy between Linux and MacOS, I believe it's most likely a font issue.
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Inappropriate?The font settings in both instances of Flock are set exactly the same.
Default font is Georgia, size 14.
Fonts for Western.
Proportional: Serif, 14
Serif: Georgia
Sans-Serif: Verdana
Monospace: Tahoma, 14
Allow pages to choose their own fonts is enabled.
Default character encoding is Western ISO-8850-1.
The character is produced in the source code with an extended html character code.
What part of the system determines exactly which font ends up being displayed? Does Flock pick the font? -
Inappropriate?The font settings in both instances of Flock are set exactly the same.
Default font is Georgia, size 14.
Fonts for Western.
Proportional: Serif, 14
Serif: Georgia
Sans-Serif: Verdana
Monospace: Tahoma, 14
Allow pages to choose their own fonts is enabled.
Default character encoding is Western ISO-8850-1.
The character is produced in the source code with an extended html character code.
What part of the system determines exactly which font ends up being displayed? Does Flock pick the font? -
Inappropriate?One thing that could be different about the two installations of Flock is how the region and language settings in Win XP were set at the time of installation.
Control Panel, Region and Language Options, Advanced, Language for non-Unicode programs might have been set to English on one machine and to Chinese on the other.
Does anyone know if the Region and Language settings have any effect during a Flock installation? -
Inappropriate?The Region and Language settings probably have an effect on which fonts/character sets get used, but I don't think it would be specific to what was set at installation time.
The fonts are not shipped with Flock -- it just uses the fonts resident on your system. So even though both installations of Flock may have Georgia as the default, the version of Georgia provided by your OS may be slightly different due to, for example, Region and Language settings, or the hotfixes you may have installed, etc...
So I expect that you would see the same discrepancy in Firefox and possibly other browsers between the two machines.
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