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[symbol]Panopticon[/symbol]
Panopticon
Panopticon

For some reason, these aren’t showing up in the symbol font for me. I’m using Firefox 2.0.0.4 on Windows 2000.

What’s odd is that if I take the page’s source and drop that in a blank HTML doc, it shows up properly. Must be a CSS issue.

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They do show as greek characters for me. IE7 on XP.

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They don’t show up as greek letters to me.

Firefox 2.0.0.4, WinXP Pro

<< We all live in a yellow subroutine. >>

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On Firefox 2.0.0.3, it shows as courier. On IE7 and Maxthon, the letters are greek.

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Firefox 2…0.0.4 - courier.
Opera 9.21 - courier.
Maxthon - Greek

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Firefox 2.0.0.4, XP. They show up in my default font, Book Antiqua.

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Firefox 2.0.0.4 on MacOS X. It’s greek to me.

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Firefox 2.0.0.4 on Ubuntu Fiesty - courier.
Epiphany on Ubuntu Fiesty - courier.
Galeon on Ubuntu Fiesty - courier.
Konqueror on Ubuntu Fiesty - courier.

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Firefox 2.0.0.4 on Windows XP. No idea what font it is (how do I tell?), but it’s not symbol and it’s not courier (maybe Times? It’s serifed).

What’s very interesting is that there is no need to drop the page’s source into a blank HTML document - just cut and paste that word into Word and it shows up in the symbol font (I’m using Word 2003).

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Dropped it into Abiword and it became Times New Roman.

Open Office 2 turns it into Greek

edit to add - it is identified as Times, not Symbol. though.

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Not quite sure what to tell you here except that vBulletin was originally written around Internet Explorer. If you choose to use another browser there’s not a lot we can do about it.

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Weird, for me they show up as “Cthulhu Fhtagn Fhtagn.”

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Lemme see if any of this helps –

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test post

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See this article:

http://www.plasmaphysics.org.uk/papers/symbolfont.htm

I tried it - worked for me.

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Interesting. I only applied step 2 on the page ZipperJJ and that worked. I wonder if I’ll see any weird results down the road.

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Woohoo, it works!

Thanks, thanks!

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Bloody Vista won’t let me make the changes.
I’ll try it on the XP machine later though.

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Interesting: I’m using IE7 and while the characters show as Greek if I open the thread, they show as non-Greek in the preview.

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The preview is set to strip HTML. What is making those letters in the symbol font is HTML:



<font face="symbol">Panopticon</font><br />
<font face="symbol">Panopticon</font><br />
<font face="Symbol">Panopticon</font><br />

Note that there’s also an HTML line break in there (<br />) and you don’t see that in the preview either.