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Reason for variation in unicode display between IE7 and IE8 ?
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Given 2 systems both running Win XP SP3 fully patched ...
One system has IE7 fully patched and Firefox 3.6.
Other has IE8 fully patched and Firefox 3.6
On both systems the Lucida Sans Unicode font is installed and both installations of IE have the SAME settings for Encoding (UTF-8) and for Internet Options / Fonts.
On both systems, Firefox displays the unicode characters I require, correctly. These are in the 25xx (geometrical shapes) and 27xx (dingbats) ranges.
The system running IE7 also displays ALL the required unicode chars correctly.
The system running IE8 displays SOME 25xx chars but NO 27xx chars.
With Firefox providing a good control, this is weird.
Is there something different about IE8 that I need to set ... an addon may be ? What could be the reason for this difference in behaviour.
thanks RR
Given 2 systems both running Win XP SP3 fully patched ...
One system has IE7 fully patched and Firefox 3.6.
Other has IE8 fully patched and Firefox 3.6
On both systems the Lucida Sans Unicode font is installed and both installations of IE have the SAME settings for Encoding (UTF-8) and for Internet Options / Fonts.
On both systems, Firefox displays the unicode characters I require, correctly. These are in the 25xx (geometrical shapes) and 27xx (dingbats) ranges.
The system running IE7 also displays ALL the required unicode chars correctly.
The system running IE8 displays SOME 25xx chars but NO 27xx chars.
With Firefox providing a good control, this is weird.
Is there something different about IE8 that I need to set ... an addon may be ? What could be the reason for this difference in behaviour.
thanks RR
rindi
When you run IE8 the first time, you are asked some questions, one of them being whether it should be using compatibility view or not. If you don't use compatibility view, things can be displayed differently from the previous version of IE. If you select compatibility view, it should display as it used to.
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Rindi : thanks for the comment. I have experimented with compatibility view during my efforts to resolve this. Unfortunately this doesn't make any difference to this particular unicode display problem which seems to be solely an IE8 issue. Any others with unicode display problems in IE8 ?
thanks RR
thanks RR
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jcimarron : thanks for the comment. I appreciate the issues about standards compliance but I don't think it is truly the issue here. The pages in question are being generated by a web application (my own), so I'm controlling what's produced.
Currently the rendering of unicode characters is correct for these pages in Firefox v 3.5.x and 3.6.x, also Opera 10.x (arguably the most standards compliant of the lot) and IE7 ... on the same systems. The only failure is IE8 and as mentioned before the 'compatibility mode' ... ugh ... has no effect on this issue.
I'm going to experiment with the 'IE7 mimic' header as in the excellent neowin.net link you posted and will report back in due course. Meanwhile if anyone has any other ideas :) ...
RR
Currently the rendering of unicode characters is correct for these pages in Firefox v 3.5.x and 3.6.x, also Opera 10.x (arguably the most standards compliant of the lot) and IE7 ... on the same systems. The only failure is IE8 and as mentioned before the 'compatibility mode' ... ugh ... has no effect on this issue.
I'm going to experiment with the 'IE7 mimic' header as in the excellent neowin.net link you posted and will report back in due course. Meanwhile if anyone has any other ideas :) ...
RR
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RetroRocker--Thanks for sharing the fix with us.