- From: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:40:31 -0500
- To: Drew Perttula <drewp@bigasterisk.com>
- Cc: site-comments@w3.org
On 13 Oct 2009, at 10:46 PM, Drew Perttula wrote: > Ian Jacobs wrote: >> 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? > > In chromium I don't know- it's the default linux one, whatever that > is. > > In firefox, the fonts menu says that my sans-serif font is the one > called 'sans-serif' :) I'm not sure how to resolve that name any > more, but I didn't change it from the firefox default. > > I picked up the character on my clipboard and searched for it in the > charmap program. The only hit is U+2059 FIVE DOT PUNCTUATION. Using > curl in my rxvt also displays the char in the html source as a five- > dot splat thing. > > I also just noticed that there are some successful dashes on the > page, even in my screenshot. Was the char after 'inference' supposed > to be the same as the one after 'industries'? > > firefox 3.5.5pre > chromium 4.0.222.4 (Ubuntu build 28689) > X.Org X Server 1.6.0 > Ubuntu 9.04 > fvwm 2.5.26 Hi Drew, I checked the file source and I'm using — which is Unicode mdash: http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2014/index.htm I checked the generated output using this checker: http://rishida.net/tools/conversion/ And when I paste in the character, it tells me it's mdash (— in hex). Not sure what to do at this point... _ Ian -- Ian Jacobs (ij@w3.org) http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs/ Tel: +1 718 260 9447
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