On Monday, August 20, 2007, inbox_js@solve.se (Johan Solve) pronounced:

>For the prev/next links in knop_grid I have chosen the characters ▼ and ◄ since they
>are supposed to be present in WGL4, the Windows Glyph List.
>
>http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/geometric_shapes.html
>http://www.alanwood.net/demos/wgl4.html
>
>But for some reason these two arrow characters are not rendering properly in IE6, they appear as
>boxes. I've found one reference about these two arrows not working in IE6, but that they do work
>in IE7.
>http://goldmandesign.com/blog/2007/03/16/arrow-glyphs-what-to-do-laquo-and-raquo-left-angle-quote-
>right-angle-quote-semantics-and-screen-readers/#comment-1552
>
>Does anyone know what's the deal here? Any workarounds apart from using another glyph for the
>arrow?

Did you see the comment further down the page? In source view:

In order to render correctly the “right triangle” in IE 6 use ▶ instead of ► . Also to render correctly the “left triangle” in IE 6 use &x25C0; instead of ◄ .

--steve

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