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Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 16:35:20 -0400
From: emeyer@netscape.com (Eric Meyer)
To: www-validator@w3.org
Subject: Re: Source shows in Greek (added info)
Robert Barger wrote:
> After sending my message last Saturday and receiving no response on the
> list, I attempted to cut and paste the validator's analysis into this
> message so one could see the Greek characters (since the source code
> appears in the validator's response completely in Greek). But when I cut
> the Greek text from the validator's response (as it appeared on my
> browser) and pasted it into my e-mail message...it appeared in English!
>
> Does anyone have a guess at what is causing this?
I seem to recall IE5.x/Win having a bug that caused text to show up
in the Greek-symbol font for no apparent reason. I seem to recall the
suggested fixes were the usual sort for that company's product: flush
out the cache, reinstall the browser, reinstall the operating system...
something along those lines.
I'm curious-- does tha validator's CSS specify a generic font-family
for that text, without calling for a specific (i.e., named) font family?
That's been known to trigger font-handling bugs in IE5.x/Win; for
example, declaring something like 'body {font-family: sans-serif;' will
sometimes get you nothing but null-character box symbols.
(Hey, Dr. B! How've you been?)
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