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Older browsers, such as [[Netscape Navigator]] 4.77 and [[Internet Explorer 6]], can only display text supported by the current font associated with the character encoding of the page, and may misinterpret numeric character references as being references to code values within the current character encoding, rather than references to Unicode code points. When you are using such a browser, it is unlikely that your computer has all of those fonts, or that the browser can use all available fonts on the same page. As a result, the browser will not display the text in the examples above correctly, though it may display a subset of them. Because they are encoded according to the standard, though, they ''will'' display correctly on any system that is compliant and does have the characters available. Further, those characters given names for use in named entity references are likely to be more commonly available than others.

For displaying characters outside the [[Basic Multilingual Plane]], likesuch as the Gothic letter faihu, which is a variant of the runic letter Fehufehu in the table above, some systems (like Windows 2000) need manual adjustments of their settings.

==Frequency of usage==