Re: Symbol font in SVG
Chris Lilley <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.svg |
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| Organization | W3C |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Thursday, October 23, 2008, 2:38:27 PM, H wrote: HJCBrn> Alarm! I have often used the font-family:Symbol in SVG, which Firefox HJCBrn> used to interpret as equivalent to the standard postscript Symbol font HJCBrn> (greek and mathematical characters). That was a reasonable work around circa 1998. Nowadays, just use Unicode. In particular, misusing 'Symbol' to get Greek is especially bad and ensures that no search engine will find such 'Greek-like' text. HJCBrn> Now suddenly, with Firefox HJCBrn> 3.0.3, the Symbol font-family displays exactly like the Times font, as HJCBrn> if the Symbol font is no longer supported. Its supported; just use the correct characters instead of misusing the ASCII characters. You can still use that font if you wish. (Or any other font that has glyphs for those characters). HTML4 gave a mapping for the Unicode values of the 'symbol' font. You can use those characters, and will get consistent rendering across SVG implementations. http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/sgml/entities.html#h-24.3 -- Chris Lilley mailto:[email protected] Technical Director, Interaction Domain W3C Graphics Activity Lead Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG