"→" with IE 6.0.x under Win XP gives no right arrow

Hi,

on my website i have some $rarr; tags - that shows usually a right arrow.
Now I have Windows XP Professional and IE 6.0.x and it shows a square with a
kind of a star.
How can I get a right arrow for all browsers and os?

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"Stephan Koser" <no-skoser-spam (AT) web (DOT) de> wrote

Hi,

on my website i have some $rarr; tags - that shows usually a right arrow.
Now I have Windows XP Professional and IE 6.0.x and it shows a square with
a
kind of a star.
How can I get a right arrow for all browsers and os?

A "tag" is an element combined with its attributes.
What you're discussing is (er, would be) a character entity.
it is &rarr; or →


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on my website i have some $rarr; tags [...]

no such animal. try &rarr; or → entities

ah, sorry - I meant &rarr;
The Browser doesn't show a right arrow but a curios square an H in left
upper corner and an star in the lower right.
→ shows it too.

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"Stephan Koser" <no-skoser-spam (AT) web (DOT) de> wrote:

on my website i have some $rarr; tags

You probably meant &rarr;. And to correct the corrections posted by
others, &rarr; is an entity reference, and the corresponding construct,
which works a little more often, →, is a character reference.

- that shows usually a right arrow.

It usually does, and it should, but support is not universal.

Now I have Windows XP Professional and IE 6.0.x and it shows
a square with a kind of a star.

In that environment, I'd guess it's a font problem. But does it happen
for all fonts?

I tried it with arial, verdana, times and lucida console. Always the same
result.

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I tried it with arial, verdana, times and lucida console. Always the same
result.

You should use → because this works even in Netscape 4.08 (as
long as you set "charset=UTF-8").
Now to your problem: What do you see at
http://www.unics.uni-hannover.de/nht...thematics.html
Could you make a screen shot available?

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You should use → because this works even in Netscape 4.08 (as
long as you set "charset=UTF-8").

Just to clarify, by "you" you mean the page author, right?

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You should use → because this works even in Netscape 4.08 (as
long as you set "charset=UTF-8").

Just to clarify, by "you" you mean the page author, right?

Right.

Hi Stephan.

I guess that your problem is in encodings.

Symptoms like attempt to see UTF-8 string as ascii.

I guess you are using some ASP/PHP/C++, etc. modules for generation of your
html.

Am I right?

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Hi Stephan.

I guess that your problem is in encodings.

Symptoms like attempt to see UTF-8 string as ascii.

I guess you are using some ASP/PHP/C++, etc. modules for generation of
your
html.

Am I right?

Yes, you'r right. I generate the page with PHP. But I have also some static
html pages, and the result is the same.
The Browser is set to western iso, but even when I set ist to Unicode
(UTF-8) I get this curios sign.
With Opera and Netscape i get the right sign.

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