How to show character #491?

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There is a unique Old Norse or Icelandic character which is sometimes
written, alternatively, as ö (o-Umlaut). In Wikipedia source code the
character is represented as #491. My IE browser fails to show it,
whatever encoding I select. Instead, I get to see a little rectangle. Is
there a way to make it visible?
Two examples:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetic_Edda#In_Codex_Regius>, where I get
"Völuspá (V?luspá)", (where ? stands for the rectangle);
<http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/texte/etcs/germ/anord/edda/edda.htm>, the
same problem in the text in the upper left frame.

Any help or explanation is appreciated.
 
Harmsen said:
There is a unique Old Norse or Icelandic character which is sometimes
written, alternatively, as ö (o-Umlaut). In Wikipedia source code the
character is represented as #491. My IE browser fails to show it,
whatever encoding I select. Instead, I get to see a little rectangle.
Is there a way to make it visible?
Two examples:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetic_Edda#In_Codex_Regius>, where I
get "Völuspá (V?luspá)", (where ? stands for the rectangle);
<http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/texte/etcs/germ/anord/edda/edda.htm>,
the same problem in the text in the upper left frame.

Any help or explanation is appreciated.
Click to expand...

Hold down the Alt key while you press 0246 on the number pad to get ö.

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The letter you're trying to display is Latin small letter O with ogonek
(Unicode U+01EB). In order to display it, you have to use a font which
contains a glyph for that character. (The rectangle is used when no glyph
is available for the code to be displayed.)

Most Microsoft fonts do not contain this character. Arial Unicode MS
does, but that's available only bundled with products such as Microsoft
Office. If you have such a font and configure IE to use it, you'll be
able to see the character properly.

Firefox does display the character correctly, but I have no idea how.
 
Gary said:
The letter you're trying to display is Latin small letter O with ogonek
(Unicode U+01EB). In order to display it, you have to use a font which
contains a glyph for that character. (The rectangle is used when no glyph
is available for the code to be displayed.)

Most Microsoft fonts do not contain this character. Arial Unicode MS
does, but that's available only bundled with products such as Microsoft
Office. If you have such a font and configure IE to use it, you'll be
able to see the character properly.
Click to expand...

Thank you, this works! (For archive purposes I should add that, besides
selecting this font in IE, the user needs to check the option "Ignore
font styles specified on Web pages" -- which means that all text will be
'Arialized'.)
I also found another font that can show the character, called TITUS
Cyberbit Basic; it's more like a Times font, with serif.
 
Thank you, this works! (For archive purposes I should add that, besides
selecting this font in IE, the user needs to check the option "Ignore
font styles specified on Web pages" -- which means that all text will be
'Arialized'.)
I also found another font that can show the character, called TITUS
Cyberbit Basic; it's more like a Times font, with serif.
Click to expand...

Excellent! I would have mentioned the Titus font, but couldn't remember
its name. It's that PMS (Porous Memory Syndrome) thing.
 
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