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Re: apparent unicode error

From: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:34:03 -0500
To: Drew Perttula <drewp@bigasterisk.com>
Message-Id: <A0104EBF-F318-4E64-B102-78C98D5D3C24@w3.org>
Cc: site-comments@w3.org 

On 13 Oct 2009, at 9:55 PM, Drew Perttula wrote:

> http://bigasterisk.com/post/w3page.png is what http://www.w3.org/standards/semanticweb/ 
>  looks like on Chromium on linux. Firefox seems the same. The  
> context suggests there should be a -- dash, but instead I see a  
> funny 'x' of dots.

Hi Drew,

I believe that is a Unicode mdash character (in utf-8 encoding). It  
looks ok on my firefox and safari. What font are you using to display?

  _ Ian

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