Getting Glyphics wingdings in IE6 instead of text

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Robert Lane

I tried it again today and all I get at this site:
http://www.kccu.com/services/ is a page full of wing
dings in the main content area. This is happening on all
the pages. A friend says it looks fine to him in IE6 so
I am wondering what setting might be throwing it off in
my browser.

I have IE6.0.28 on a WIN XP Pro system.

I posted a screen shot of what I am seeing over here:
http://www.lane-consulting.com/KCCU_Glyphs.htm

Anyone got any ideas. I have played with the encoding
settings and the languages settings but am not making any
progress on unraveling this.

Thanks and happy holidays to everyone.
 
http://www.kccu.com/services/

You should be able to view that page by ignoring Font sizes specified
in web pages using the Accessibility dialog (Alt-T,O,Alt-e,z).
I posted a screen shot of what I am seeing over here:
http://www.lane-consulting.com/KCCU_Glyphs.htm
Click to expand...

Your graphic doesn't include the full text. Is there any text in the
main area which is readable? For example the links at the bottom
are smaller than the rest.

Unfortunately I don't understand HTML well enough to know exactly
what fonts and font sizes are being selected by the page's STYLE
and FONT specifications:

<STYLE TYPE="text/css"> a:link { color: DarkBlue; }
a:visited {color: DarkBlue;}
a:active {color: DarkBlue; }
a:hover {color: Magenta; }
body {
font-family: serif;
margin-top: 25px;
margin-bottom: 25px;
margin-left: 25px;
margin-right: 25px;
font-size: small;
}
</STYLE>

The title uses <FONT SIZE="5">

The subtitle and body uses <FONT SIZE="4">

The links at the bottom that I mentioned use <font size=-1>

The minus sign in the latter specification makes me think that the other
specifications may be relative also but the only relation that comes to mind
is the set of 5 sizes that are implied by the View Text menu. (Alt-V,x,...)

What setting do you have for View, Text and do you get any different
results by choosing a different Text size?

It would be nice to know how to identify which fonts are actually
being chosen. Since the style specifies font-family: serif it is easy
enough to figure out lots of them that are not being chosen by using
the Fonts Control Panel applet and eyeballing the test patterns.
Perhaps someone can clue us in on a more efficient techique than that.
Then what you could do is compare your set of Fonts with your friend's
and perhaps try to make them more similar somehow.

I think that you will probably find better help in a newsgroup where content
providers are the main audience. Just a quick search on Google Groups
indicates that the particularly coding style being used in this page is
problematic which means that it is less a problem for the end-user to solve
and more of a problem for the coder to avoid.


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle
 
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