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clagnut - stick around why don't youhttp://www.clagnut.com [clagnut - stick around why don't you] So if you want to code an unusual character into your HTML, such as a proper ligature like ‘fi’, you can use Unicode Font Info to find the entity (by checking a huge font such as Lucida Grande) and then see what other fonts support it; something I’m finding very useful for a little project I’m slowly piecing together.

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http://macbiblioblog.blogspot.com [The Macintosh Biblioblog] Unicode: A Bible Scholar's Introduction: The level of discussion is designed for the bible scholar who considers themselves a non-techie-- whose response to Unicode so far has mostly been, "Uni-what?" This first article centers only on beginning concepts, in contrast to the old system we are familiar with. I will later move towards "trying things out" on your computer.(If the Unicode characters on this web page are not displaying correctly, and you're using OS X, use Safari or Firefox, not Explorer.

Clagnut.comhttp://www.clagnut.com [Clagnut.com] The new typography | clagnut/blog: I back these up with Microsoft’s Web fonts (Georgia, Verdana, Andale Mono) and more recently with Bitstream’s new Vera family (Vera Serif, Vera Sans, Vera Sans Mono) which is propagating through Linux systems. These three families are similar in their proportions, as you can see from this type sheet.

http://www.weightshift.com [Weightshift.com] Weightshift - Memo, a weblog about design: In recent months, the Lucida family has been getting use, primarily Lucida Grande or Lucida Sans Unicode. A week or so ago I came across another family of Lucida that looks, well pretty damn good on the screen.

Codepoetry.nethttp://www.codepoetry.net [Codepoetry.net] codepoetry - Panther's Major Text Services Upgrade: I know in the Mac community you can find more typography-zealots than anyhere else per capita, but I think some of the criticisms here are a little nitpicking (come on... controls too easy to get at?) Others make many good little points that they could fix next time around, but overall I hope we don't focus in on minor quibbles and lose sight of the fact that this is certainly a vast improvement on the previous Text Edit &

[Girtby.net] girtby.net » Blog Archive » Don’t use Wingdings: OK so maybe you don’t buy all this XML philosophy about text versus markup, but on a purely practical level, if every XML parser in the world can understand this character encoded as an entity (ie ), then that should be the way to go, right?

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