symbols as seen by US users

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?

Thanks,
Mick.

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.

On 13 Aug 2005 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?

I have never had a browser ask if I want to download a font when the ones
I had didn't have the characters required. I just get a '?' in place
of any unsupported characters.

I'm not in the US but I am in Canada. Is that close enough?

Anyway, both the Pound sign and the Euro sign display fine with both
Firefox and Internet Explorer (yes, I took that chance after viewing the
HTML source code on that page with Firefox) on my Windows 98 machine.

You might want to check your page for errors, however. One that I noticed
when looking at the HTML source was your use of "colour" instead of
"color" as an attribute for one of the tags near the bottom of the page.
As a result, the text you apparently wanted in red is displayed in black.
The spelling, "colour" is proper English (contrary to what Americans
think). The spelling, "color" is proper HTML. (That's not the only
misspelling to end up in the HTML standard. See the reference to
"referer[sic]" in RFC 2068.)

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mick wrote:

> I have just built a site which contains both the euro
> symbol and the british pound symbol in ariel font

If they have very old fonts, then they may have problems with €, but
shouldn't have any with £.

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