[WEB4LIB] display of fractions

[Thomas Dowling]

See <URL:http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/charset/> and
<URL:http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/iso8859/iso8859-mac.html> for
details on the points at which the Mac OS and the ISO Latin 1 character
set part company, including character 189, which ISO uses for the 1/2
fractin.  I believe that Mac IE interposes some application-level
character remapping to comply with the standard, while Mac Netscape does
not.

Thomas Dowling
OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
tdowling at ohiolink.edu


----- Original Message -----
From: "cbickner" <cbickner at nypl.org>

>      Has anyone ever had a display problem with fractions on web pages?
>      Some of our Mac users see ??? where 1/2 should be.  I can think of
>      some work arounds but want to know if anyone has seen this before.
>
>      The page in question is:
>
>      http://www.nypl.org/branch/bx/mo.html
>
>      Carrie Bickner
>