Google Chrome and LC diacritic display

[Bob Rasmussen]

Oh, RUSSIAN diacritics, the double ones! Those are the most troublesome.

What version of Chrome are you using? What version of Windows or other OS? 
On my Windows 7, with Chrome 19.0.1084.56 m, it displays OK.

I believe it comes down to what font ends up being used to display the 
text. If the browser uses a font that doesn't contain those characters, 
you get a rectangle or other placeholder.

My Chrome displays the surname Slutskaia (diacritics removed for 
readability) in Calibri. I learned that by highlighting some of the text 
in the browser, and pasting it (as RTF) into Wordpad. I can use the 
Charmap utility in Windows to confirm that Calibri contains the character Unicode 0361, Combining Double 
Inverted Breve. 

The same thing in IE 9 reveals that it's displaying in Times New Roman, 
which also works.

Note that in the sample shots you posted, the fonts are different between 
the Chrome and the IE samples. I can't tell what fonts they are, but 
they're different.

Finally, note that the number of included diacritics in Calibri and Times 
New Roman has increased with later versions of Windows.

Bottom line, it's a matter of choosing the right fonts in your style 
sheets.

On Wed, 20 Jun 2012, Alan Boyd wrote:

> sure, here's what I mean...
> 
> https://sites.google.com/a/oberlin.edu/diacritics-samples/
> 
> --Alan
> 
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Bob Rasmussen <ras at anzio.com> wrote:
> 
> > I'd suggest you post a link to a few sample pages.
> >
> > On Wed, 20 Jun 2012, Alan Boyd wrote:
> >
> > > So IE and Firefox display most LC diacritics just fine, but I can't get
> > > Google Chrome (w/autodetect or UTF-8 encoding) to play nice.  What's the
> > > trick?
> > >
> > > --
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