In article <1123961834.804014.86050@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups. com>,
mick@reiss.demon.co.uk wrote:
> I have just built a site which contains both the euro
> symbol and the british pound symbol in ariel font
> (see www.remotestand.com) and was wondering if both
> these symbols will get displayed correctly to U.S. visitors
> or will they get some horrid message like "would you like to download
> european fonts". And if they do get such a message,
> is there a way to avoid it?
You're using proper entity references, not special fonts. That makes it
a browsers issue, and the biggest potential problem there is missing
support for the named references. Consider using € and £
instead.