Some test data copied from Magnus Manske page: Im using Netscape 4.7 and I see lambda as &lambda Joao :It's funny everyone complains about Micro$oft when IE seems to be the only browser that actually supports HTML4... :So, let's try unicode : λ Anyone sees a lambda here in Netscape or Konqueror? :Ideas to resolve this would be appreciated! I see λ and λ as a lambda in Galeon (really Mozilla 0.9.4), and in Lynx on a UTF-8 terminal, but not in links, w3m, or Emacs W3. After writing the above, I realised I'd read something about Netscape 4 only interpreting numeric entity references in the current page's character set. See [1] for more information. (This may break the display of Anders' last name above, since it's in ISO-8859-1, not UTF-8.) --Carey Evans In Mozilla 0.9.5 λ and λ are lambda Taw |
Looks ok for me under Win98SE/IE5.5, but long ago I grabbed the free fonts from Microsoft at http://www.microsoft.com/typography/free.htm and other locations, so that may be why. BTW, my default font is sans-serif, so the Greek letters look pretty plain (pi looks like a 3-sided box); the prod (∏) and sum (∑) glyphs retain the serifs and are larger too. See Hornlo/Test for some side-by-side, so to speak, comparisions of similar entity markups. They all, except the last 4 on the page, display correctly for me. --loh.
It works fine for me under WinME/IE 5.5.
I haven't downloaded any extra fonts. --KQ
Mike Dill
√x will work on many browsers. It's outside the standard set, but the alternatives sqrt(x) or x1/2 are both pretty awkward, so if you really need it, use it. It should be up to the author's judgment whether the use of a nonstandard character is important enough for readability to sacrifice compatibility with text-only browsers and old software. --LDC
Currently the only way to do that is by using a fixed-width font. Start each line with a blank space and you'll get that. But what's wrong with using a table? It is, in fact, a table, right? --LDC
Im using Netscape 4.7 and I see lambda as &lambda Joao
I see λ and λ as a lambda in Galeon (really Mozilla 0.9.4), and in Lynx on a UTF-8 terminal, but not in links, w3m, or Emacs W3.
After writing the above, I realised I'd read something about Netscape 4 only interpreting numeric entity references in the current page's character set. See [1] for more information. (This may break the display of Anders' last name above, since it's in ISO-8859-1, not UTF-8.) --Carey Evans
In Mozilla 0.9.5 λ and λ are lambda Taw