This will be a test HTML document for Unicode entities. The characters described at the left should display in the center of the page. If not, then the browser does not support Unicode. This page is formatted in Times New Roman, which should be on everyone's system.
amacron
and Amacron: ā Ā
emacron
and ebreve: ē ĕ
Imacron
and imacron: Ī ī
umacron
and ubreve: ū ŭ
alpha and
omega: α ω
Yumlaut and yumlaut: Ÿ ÿ (entered using Ÿ and ÿ entities)
Ymacron and ymacron Ȳ ȳ (these will probably display as boxes in Windows or question marks in Mac OS since Times NR lacks these characters)
Notes about what works
The following shows what has and has not worked so far. Please let me know if you have information to add here.
Operating
System Browser Success?
Mac OS 10.1 IE 5.2 yes (except Y/y macron)
Mac OS 10.1 Omniweb yes (Unicode characters right, although the wrong font displayed; but Y/y macron do work)
Mac OS 10.1 Netscape 6.2.3 yes (except Y/y macron, and the font gets switched around in a strange way)
Mac OS 9.2 IE 5.1 ??
Windows XP Netscape 6.2.3 yes, including Y/y macron — this combination is the best so far!
Windows XP IE 6.0 yes (except Y/y macron)
Windows 2000 IE 5.5 yes (except Y/y macron)
Windows 98/Me IE 5.5 yes (except Y/y macron)
Test results as of August 12, 2002.