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Re: [xml-dev] xml unicode ligature escape

From: Andrei Boyanov <>
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Date: 2004-08-18T13:48:28Z
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Thread: Re: [xml-dev] xml unicode ligature escape

Hi,

Fernando wrote:

> Hi:
> 
> Any of you have any idea why the escape sequence &amp;#64257; works fine 
> in IE but &amp;#64256; 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,

-- 
Andrei Boyanov
Active Solutions Ltd.
http://activesolutions.bg; http://andrei.activesolutions.bg

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