Re: small phi font problem

Hi Eduardo,
  Your information was very valuable. I understand now how come there
are two switched renderings of the phi fonts. Assuming that all the
the browsers use the new unicode specification (curly - &#x3c6,
straight - &#x3d5) for embeding in a text (not mathml), then all
depends of the fonts used by mathml.
  Cheers, Samy

On Feb 2, 9:01 pm, Eduardo Tabacman <[email protected]> wrote:
> I don't know anything about the Mozilla implementation of this, but I'm
> sure it relates to the fonts that are being used.
>
> The glyphs for the two versions of phi (0x3c6 and 0x3d5) were swapped at
> some point by the unicode specs;
> i.e., they used to be one way (curly for 3d5, straight for 3c6), and
> after a certain version of unicode (3.0?), they were swapped.
> Therefore, there are many fonts that agree with the older glyphs, and
> many others that agree with the new (and now correct) glyphs.
>
> If one want to have the phis always display correctly, there should be
> some ad-hoc code for dealing with their display, font-by-font.
>
> eduardo