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DiapDealer · 11-20-2018, 08:55 AM

No problem. But keep in mind that there's really no difference between the unicode character and the html entity in terms of what ADE is capable of inherently displaying. The glyphs are either included in the available fonts on the reader (or in the app), or they are not. If you're not using embedded fonts for certain characters, using the html entity for those characters will not make them magically show up where the same unicode character fails to properly display. If the glyph is not included in ADE's default fonts, embedding is the only way you can guarantee them to display properly.

In short: Sigil changing your html entity to a unicode character is not the reason the character doesn't display in different rendering engines. They don't display because the font sets in those different engines don't include the glyph for the character you want to show. You need to embed a font that includes all the special characters you require for your content.

11-20-2018, 08:55 AM	#3
DiapDealer Grand Sorcerer Posts: 28,664 Karma: 205039118 Join Date: Jan 2010 Device: Nexus 7, Kindle Fire HD	No problem. But keep in mind that there's really no difference between the unicode character and the html entity in terms of what ADE is capable of inherently displaying. The glyphs are either included in the available fonts on the reader (or in the app), or they are not. If you're not using embedded fonts for certain characters, using the html entity for those characters will not make them magically show up where the same unicode character fails to properly display. If the glyph is not included in ADE's default fonts, embedding is the only way you can guarantee them to display properly. In short: Sigil changing your html entity to a unicode character is not the reason the character doesn't display in different rendering engines. They don't display because the font sets in those different engines don't include the glyph for the character you want to show. You need to embed a font that includes all the special characters you require for your content. Last edited by DiapDealer; 11-20-2018 at 10:23 AM.