When a html coded page requires the Windows Symbol font, Firefox does not call it, and the English alphabet characters display instead. How can I get the Symbol font to work when the page is loaded in Firefox??
This site shows Greek letters and Greek words by calling for the Windows Symbol font. The page(s) involved display correctly in Internet Explorer, but not in Firefox 3.6.1 or 8.1. In Firefox, the Greek letter does not appear, it is just replaced with the English letter for the equivalent keystroke. Here is a html line that ought to cause Symbol's Greek letter lowercase alpha to be displayed, but all you get is an "a" :
<td width="60"><big><font face="Symbol">a</font></big> How do I get Firefox to display this html code correctly?
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Works for me on Linux, but probably not on Windows.
Reemphasizing, the page code works on Internet Explorer. It does _not_ work with Firefox ver 3.6.1 nor ver 8.0.1 (which I upgraded to, to see if that would solve the problem). The MDC FAQ solution is not a solution, because it forces the html coder to change his language just to accommodate Firefox. Firefox needs to change to conform to standards.
What did work was that I followed the solution offered on:
http://hutchinson.belmont.ma.us/tth/firefox3.html
"How to reenable symbol font in Firefox 3 on Windows"
**********Solution*********
Download the file:
http://hutchinson.belmont.ma.us/tth/symbol8859.otf
Go to Control Panel/Fonts/Install New Font
Install the font that was downloaded.
************Problem Solved*********
I think Firefox wants you to use _its_ font faces, not the standard Windows fonts. They do not have a Symbol font to replace the Windows TTF, I guess.
Modified by imardmd1
If as suggested, Firefox don't have a symbol font, you can use the Greek letters in standard fonts. Firefox supports that.
That is relatively easy to get in Word.
Select the underlying font you want to use (say Times New Roman) and just use the insert / symbol menu to select the text you want, and put into a word document. You can then copy the selected characters into the html.
You can do a similar thing in Open Office. Use the Insert / Special font menu, and make sure you change the font from Symbol.
Put the copied text (e.g. χ) into HTML tags like this: {span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"}χ{/span}, but replacing { and } with < and >.
You can even get the Greek accents this way.
Modified by GrahamLovell