Bulleted lists & incorrect bullet symbol

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Hi,

I have a strange problem with IE 7: it displays the wrong symbol as the
bullet on bulleted list elements (<UL> & <LI> tags) displayed on a webpage.
Instead of the usual filled circle I am presented with a greek lamda symbol.

See http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/6419/ie7ul7mj6.jpg for a screenshot
of the problem.

I have tried replacing all my fonts from a machine that doesn't have the
problem. That didn't help. I have checked IE's language and font settings
and they are correct. I have searched the MS KB with no success.

This seems to be a pretty rare problem but I have found one other occurance
of it; A 1998 post by someone using IE 4
(http://groups.google.com/group/micr...read/thread/b109855abb2ada59/d7270dd52e3d97e1).
Apologies for the long URL, Google Groups was the only location for it. No
replies were made to that gentleman's post.

Can anyone help solve this? Many thanks in advance.
 
Hi Ken,

Yes, I suspect a font problem.

What happens if you change the encoding of the page?

Kind regards

Hans
 
Hans Le Roy said:
What happens if you change the encoding of the page?
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Hi Hans,

Changing the pages encoding from the default of Unicode (UTF-8) does not
alter the bullet symbol. Depending on what encoding I choose, the text of
the page can change, or other 'strange' or out of place characters appear.

If it is an issue with fonts, it is not an issue with corrupt or missing
font files. I have carefully copied all the fonts from a PC with IE 7 which
works normally (ie. bullet symbol is a filled circle) over the top of the
fonts on the machine that is having problems. So the font files should be
fine. If it is a font issue then it is something other than the files.

I think my next step will be to roll back to IE 6, check to see if the
bullets are ok and then re-install IE 7.

Cheers,
Ken.
 
Ken Thomson said:
I think my next step will be to roll back to IE 6, check to see if the
bullets are ok and then re-install IE 7.
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Hi Hans,

Since my last post I have uninstalled IE 7 and then reinstalled it and
applied all the latest patches.

Unfortunately this has not helped stop the problem of the incorrect bullet
symbol being used in bulleted lists. This is really a bit of a head
scratcher :-) To summarise actions to date: re-installed IE7, over-written
all font files with those from a similar machine without the bullet symbol
issue, played around with page encoding and played with windows themes. I
have also confirmed it is a machine setting issue and not limited to one user
profile.

The reinstallation of IE and the over-writing of the font files should
indicate that none of the files on disk are corrupt or missing. It also is
not a user setting since launching IE 7 in a virgin user profile also
exhibits the problem. So using elimination I am left with it being a machine
setting or some other software interferring.

Where in the registry are IE's machine settings stored? Is it all in
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer ? Could someone perhaps export
this branch of the registry into a reg file so I can compare settings?

Thanks for any assistance you can provide.

Cheers,
Ken.
 
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