A question about HTML codes for special characters...

Question

how come on my myspace i can do special characters like ♥ and they come up fine, but when i try to do something like the radioactive symbol it doesnt show up?

Answer 1

Browsers differ in their handling of fonts and characters, of course. You could try looking at your radioactive symbol in Safari, Opera, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Avant...under UTF-8 and ISO conditions, and on a Mac and on a PC...and get fifty-eleven different results, depending on the font!