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Re: xml unicode ligature escape

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• Subject: Re: xml unicode ligature escape
• From: Andrei Boyanov <andrei@a...>
• Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 16:48:28 +0300
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Hi,


Fernando wrote:

> Hi:
> 
> Any of you have any idea why the escape sequence fi works fine 
> in IE but ff not ? (Both characters are ligatures, fi and ff )
> 
> Here you got a sample xml:
> 
> <test>/fi ligature: written as &amp;#64257; will show ok: (&#64257;), 
> but /ff ligature written as &amp;#64256; wont show: (&#64256;). WHY?</test>
> 



Certainly the font used by IE doesn't contain this symbol...

Try for example this (as html) :

<font size="4" face="Arial Unicode MS">/fi ligature: written as
&amp;#64257; will show ok: (&#64257;), but /ff ligature written as
&amp;#64256; MUST show too: (&#64256;). WHY?</font>

rgds,

-- 
Andrei Boyanov
Active Solutions Ltd.
http://activesolutions.bg; http://andrei.activesolutions.bg

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