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Thread #148448   Message #3447475
Posted By: JohnInKansas
05-Dec-12 - 11:39 AM
Thread Name: Tech: Special Character Viewer failing on Cat
Subject: RE: Tech: Special Character Viewer failing on Cat
Reinhard shows two characters that don't work in Firefox. Those two are embedded at mudcat as HEX 1D106 and 1D107, and neither of these displays in the mudcat Preview even if properly coded. "High-bit" char numbers are sometime mangled in html, or a "char pair" of low-bit numbers may be read as a single high-bit one if not well coded, so those charnums may not be what was entered in the post(?).

Most browsers handle Character numbers only up to FOUR DIGIT Hex numbers (FFFF or FFFE}, unless the browser encoding is changed from common/typical defaults. (With some encodings failure may occur for many chars above DECIMAL 9999 = HEX 2701.) This is more of a problem if the website style sheet doesn't specify an encoding, as used to be the case here. Browsers may vary with whether you can "override" the website-specified encoding or whether the site spec always takes precedence. (We haven't really discussed that here ....(?))

John