These values can be calculated, which is explained on my UTF-8 page. For the hearts symbol this encoding takes three bytes with numerical values 226, 153 and 165. You can use the 'literal' UTF-8 encoding for the Unicode character. This only works if the UTF-8 character set is enabled by a META tag, the HTTP header or if the user has chosen UTF-8 for page display. There is another way of displaying Unicode characters in a browser. Refer in a text to a Unicode character in the following way (always 4 hex numbers): U+2665 Quick test: if you see a capital A with an inverted v above it here: ÂĪn entity by name takes the following form: ♥ result: ♥Īn entity by decimal number takes the following form: ♥ result: ♥Īn entity by hexadecimal number takes the following form: ♥ result: ♥ * close Preferences, then 'Edit' menu: 'Text size': select 'Medium' or 'Larger'. * in the 'Proportional font' menu: select for instance 'Times' * in the 'Character set' menu: select 'Universal Alphabet (UTF-8)' * in the 'Size' menu: select 'Other.', for instance 11 points. * in the 'Variable width font' menu: select 'Geneva' or 'Times' * then 'For the encoding' menu: select 'Unicode' If you use a TrueType font or a font with better bitmaps, then you will see normal characters.įorce the display to TrueType by taking an odd font size, for instance 11 points or 15 points. Result: you will see a box instead of a character. A problem with these bitmap fonts is that the characters with ASCII values higher than 127 are not always defined. All standard Macintosh fonts are TrueType fonts including a series of bitmap fonts. For printing the TrueType fonts are taken first. The Macintosh looks first for bitmap sizes of fonts if something has to be displayed on the screen. If you use Netscape Navigator, make sure you use a TrueType font for displaying UTF pages. Internet Explorer (4.5 and above) displays the UTF character set by far the best. General tips for UTF-8 pages on a Macintosh: This document activates the UTF-8 charset in a META tag. Internet Explorer: do not forget to activate 'Allow page to specify fonts' (Preferences: Web browser: web content). Netscape Navigator: do not forget to activate 'Use page-specified fonts' (Preferences: Appearance: fonts). There are of course more fonts with many Unicode characters. Try a font repository like, or any other suitable repository with Cyberbit. Everything is still under construction and in an experimental phase.īy the way, the Bitstream Cyberbit font mentioned below, can no longer be found on the Netscape site. Ten years later, all browser developers are still reluctant to support all web standards, even the simplest ones, completely. There are however still gaps in the support of all Unicode characters, even if you have installed the necessary fonts. Modern operating systems like Windows 7 have quite an extensive Unicode support, with many fonts installed. The question is: how useful is this page right now, in the year 2012?Īnswer: remarkably useful! That's why we keep the text as it is. It was written with Apples Mac OS 9 platform in mind. Attention! This page was written more than 10 years ago.
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