RE: Winddings, symbol etc

> I always thought that pdf supported wingdings & symbols, yet 
> whenever I
> use wingdings or symbol as the font it is never reproduced 
> accurately in the pdf.

Does this have anything to do with XSL?
> 
> Also, if you use Helvetica, Times New Roman and Courier with ascii
> characters abov 127 rarely results in the correct character being
> outputted to the pdf.
> 
> Can anyone tell me why this is?

Well, for a start, there aren't any ASCII characters above 127: all
characters above 127 are non-ASCII characters.

You are using some interface that expects characters to be in one encoding
and you are passing it characters in a different encoding. Without knowing
more about what you are doing, that's all one can say.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/