The Jargon File's online rendition uses an unusually large number of special characters. This test page lists them so you can check what your browser does with each one.
| glyph | description |
| α | greek character alpha |
| κ | greek character kappa |
| λ | greek character lambda |
| Λ | greek character Lambda |
| ν | greek character nu |
| ο | greek character omicron |
| π | greek character pi |
| £ | pound sterling |
| 〈 | left angle bracket |
| 〉 | right angle bracket |
| æ | ae ligature |
| ß | German sharp-s sign |
| ∼ | similarity sign |
| ⊕ | circle-plus |
| ⊗ | circle-times |
| × | times |
| ∅ | empty set (used for APL null) |
| µ | micro quantifier sign |
| → | right arrow |
| ⇔ | horizontal double arrow |
| ™ | trademark symbol |
| ® | registered-trademark symbol |
| − | minus |
| ± | plus-or-minus |
| Ø | slashed-O |
| @ | schwa |
| ´ | acute accent |
| · | medial dot |
We normally test with the latest build of Mozilla. If some of the special characters above look wrong, your browser has bugs in its standards-conformance and you should replace it.
From The Jargon Files. I don't know what's showing up on your screen, but here the "left angle bracket" and the "right angle bracket" both show up as little rectangles, and I am using Google's Chrome on an old Windows XP machine. I find the last sentence hilarious.
They all look fine to me. Then again, I'm on the latest stable (as if) build of Mozilla on XP.
ReplyDeleteLooking with Opera vs. looking with Firefox, both latest versions under Windows 7 German version, the only difference is for the empty-set symbol.
ReplyDeleteFirefox shows a circle with a forward slash through it whereas Opera shows an upright empty rectangle.