Unicode and HTML: Difference between revisions

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Some web browsers, such as [[Mozilla Firefox]], [[Opera (web browser)|Opera]], [[Safari (web browser)|Safari]] and [[Internet Explorer]] (from version 7 on), are able to display multilingual web pages by intelligently choosing a font to display each individual character on the page. They will correctly display any mix of [[Mapping of Unicode characters|Unicode blocksblock]]s, as long as appropriate [[List of typefaces#Unicode fonts|fonts]] are present in the [[operating system]].

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.