| Re: IE7 and the non-breaking hyphen |
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Group: comp.infosystems.www.browsers.mswindows · Group Profile
Author: Andreas PrilopAndreas Prilop Date: Sep 19, 2008 08:18
On Fri, 19 Sep 2008, Dick Margulis wrote:
>> It seems to me that Internet Explorer 7 (as opposed to IE6)
>> displays the non-breaking-hyphen U+2011 or ‑
>> as some sort of en-dash rather than a hyphen.
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> They look like hyphens to me. What font do you have as your browser
> default?
It happens with all: Arial, Tahoma, Times New Roman, Verdana, etc.
> Perhaps that font is missing the glyph and the browser is
> substituting one from a different font with a wider quad.
The non-breaking hyphen should need no glyph at all - as
well as the soft hyphen. The same glyph should be taken for all:
the "normal" hyphen.
And Firefox does display a hyphen. So it is not a question
of fonts.
I forgot: This is Windows XP.
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