FW: [WEB4LIB] Re: determining font displayed with generic font fa mily

[Gimon, Charles A]

When this happens to me when browsing with IE 5.5, I switch the encoding to
Cyrillic (!!!) and the symbol font is replaced by a readable font, I think
Lucida Sans Unicode...

--Charles Gimon
  Web Coordinator
  Minneapolis Public Library


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Dowling [mailto:tdowling at ohiolink.edu] 
> Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 12:17 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: determining font displayed with generic font
> family
> 
> The answer you don't want to hear: I've seen this problem posted
> repeatedly on Microsoft's IE newsgroups and
> comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets, and have never seen a
> solution.  I've never seen a regedit hack that fixes this, 
> which strikes
> me as the obvious place to start.
> 
> This is a recurring problem with upgrades to IE 5.5; the CSS serif and
> sans-serif font families start defaulting to a strange, if not wholly
> whacked, choice.  For me, 5.5 started using Lucida Sans 
> Unicode as my sans
> font on NT4; for others, it starts using a symbol font (so consider
> yourself lucky!).  Mine only went back to Arial when I 
> upgraded my OS to
> Win2000.  I suspect that's not the solution you're really looking for.
> :->
> 
> If the page is under your control, you probably want a bug fix of
> "font-family: Arial, sans-serif"; if not, alert the page author to the
> fact that this is a known IE5.5 bug which may be making their 
> pages hard
> or impossible to read for a non-negligible percentage of users.
> 
> Thomas Dowling
> OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
> tdowling at ohiolink.edu
> 
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