I should note that I'm using Windows XP Professional SP1 with everything up to date and Internet Explorer 6.0 also fully up to date. Netscape is a nice browser too but around five years ago I found there was no longer any need to take up disk space with two browsers and since IE was required in my work, I dropped Netscape.

Of course I wouldn't have submitted my post above if I hadn't tested it and verified that the schwa characters displayed correctly on my own system. Character set support is part of the the HTML specification. If developers of a browser product choose not to implement the complete specification—found at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) site—then I guess that's an issue between the developer and their customer base.

Noreen, What OS and browser do you use? And what do you see displayed above in my post purporting to display schwa characters?

      - Mark