subscripts on Internet Explorer

[laredotornado@zipmail.com]

Does anyone know why the unicode character sets for subsripts five
through 8 would not show up on IE? I have tried viewing this page

http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2088/index.htm

on PC IE 6.0 and Mac IE 5.2 and the subscript for 8 never appears (the
code is ₈) but on Mozilla on both platforms, everything looks
good.

Is there another code I should use or tag I should include on my page?

Thanks, - Dave

[Jukka K. Korpela]

Re: subscripts on Internet Explorer

laredotornado@z ipmail.com wrote:
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> Does anyone know why the unicode character sets for subsripts five
> through 8 would not show up on IE?[/color]

IE is notorius for its unwillingness to play properly with characters.
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> on PC IE 6.0 and Mac IE 5.2 and the subscript for 8 never appears
> (the code is ₈) but on Mozilla on both platforms, everything
> looks good.[/color]

Right. Roughly speaking, IE shows the character only if the _current
font_ contains a glyph for it. Most fonts on IE don't contain the
subscript eight character, see

http://www.cs.tut.fi/cgi-bin/run/~jkorpela/char.cgi?code=2088

so IE fails, unless you have set it to use a font line Arial Unicode MS
by default.
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> Is there another code I should use or tag I should include on my
> page?[/color]

₈
This causes some problems of its own, especially thanks to browser
differences in rendering and uneven line spacing, but they can usually
be dealt with in CSS tolerably, see

http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/math/#subsup

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