Re: [xml-dev] xml unicode ligature escape

[Andrei Boyanov <andrei@activesolutions.bg>]

Hi,


Fernando wrote:

> Hi:
> 
> Any of you have any idea why the escape sequence fi works fine 
> in IE but ff not ? (Both characters are ligatures, fi and ff )
> 
> Here you got a sample xml:
> 
> <test>/fi ligature: written as &amp;#64257; will show ok: (&#64257;), 
> but /ff ligature written as &amp;#64256; wont show: (&#64256;). WHY?</test>
> 



Certainly the font used by IE doesn't contain this symbol...

Try for example this (as html) :

<font size="4" face="Arial Unicode MS">/fi ligature: written as
&amp;#64257; will show ok: (&#64257;), but /ff ligature written as
&amp;#64256; MUST show too: (&#64256;). WHY?</font>

rgds,

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Andrei Boyanov
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