# Symbol font **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/symbol-font/94645 **Category:** About This Message Board **Created:** [November 21, 2001, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/symbol-font/94645 "2001-11-21T20:24:39Z") **Posts on this page:** 10 **Page:** 1
### Author: ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture) #### Post date: [November 21, 2001, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/symbol-font/94645/1 "2001-11-21T20:24:39Z")
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### Author: ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture) #### Post date: [November 21, 2001, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/symbol-font/94645/2 "2001-11-21T20:25:45Z")
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### Author: ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture) #### Post date: [November 21, 2001, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/symbol-font/94645/3 "2001-11-21T20:26:48Z")
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### Author: ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture) #### Post date: [November 21, 2001, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/symbol-font/94645/4 "2001-11-21T20:27:23Z")
😕 ---
### Author: ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture) #### Post date: [November 21, 2001, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/symbol-font/94645/5 "2001-11-21T20:47:15Z")
NOW CUT THAT OUT! :mad: [sub]Honest injun- it wasn’t working before![/sub] 🙂 ---
### Author: ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow) #### Post date: [November 21, 2001, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/symbol-font/94645/6 "2001-11-21T20:49:01Z")
:quietly backs out of the thread: ---
### Author: ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture) #### Post date: [November 21, 2001, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/symbol-font/94645/7 "2001-11-21T21:02:25Z")
Hey YOU come back here with those pancakes!!! 😃 ---
### Author: ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture) #### Post date: [December 2, 2001, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/symbol-font/94645/8 "2001-12-02T18:04:27Z")
See?? It’s not working again! Quick somebody look at this so I know I’m not insane! ---
### Author: ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow) #### Post date: [December 3, 2001, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/symbol-font/94645/9 "2001-12-03T02:24:39Z")
:takes his ham pancakes and leaves **Attrayant** to his own devices: ---
### Author: ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture) #### Post date: [December 3, 2001, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/symbol-font/94645/10 "2001-12-03T05:48:43Z")
Something screwy with Netscape. I’ve got this thread open in both Netscape & IE and can’t see the symbols in the former. This was probably discussed in the thread where the symbol font was introduced… which I am now off to read.