"rvj" <rvj@rolemodels.net> wrote in message
news:uufy$ZmXHHA.3540@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>I am fairly new to code page mapping so any hints would be useful
>
> I have a html script that creates and should display a sting of unicode 5.0
> geometric symbols


With which font?


>
> element.nodeValue="\u25C0\u25CF\u25E2\u25C6\u25B6\ u25A0\u25AE\u25FE"
>
> only two characters are displayed via Interenet Explorer 6.0 the remaining
> charcaters are displayed as rectanglar outlines


Let's sort those and omit the leading character.
Now use the CharMap utility and its Advanced View to Go to Unicode 25A0
and try cursoring through the characters that finds.

A0 AE B6 C0 C6 CF E2 FE

With Times New Roman I only see two of those (A0 and CF)
With Tahoma I only see the BlackCircle one (CF)
With Lucida Sans Unicode I would see everything but the last one (FE).

So it looks as if you will have to find a font which first of all contains the Unicode
characterset and secondly contains all the characters that you are trying to use.

Hmm... another way of looking for fonts which contain those characters
appears to be to use CharMap's Group by Unicode Subrange and pick
the Block Elements & Geometric Shapes item; then as long as you can guess
which fonts that you have have a Unicode characterset in them you can just
keep changing the Font to see the set of those characters that it contains.

I suspect that finding the best font will turn out to be a better understood
procedure than that but I don't think that this newsgroup is the best place
to look for that information. E.g. here are some clues in a test page
which lists them and their names:

http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/geometric_shapes.html

(Live Search for
unicode geometric shapes
- first hit
)


Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle
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>
> the browser encoding option is set to UTF-8 and I have the meta statement
>
> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;
> charset=UTF-8">
>
>
> 1. what is needed to display the characters correctly
> 2. what can be done in script to automattically ensure that the required
> unicode characters are displayed ?
> 3. assuming that a solution is avialable, does the solution work for all
> versions of Internet Explorer
>
>
> thanks
>
>