OmniHelp files do not display Symbol fonts properly in IE

[Jeremy H. Griffith]

On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 13:41:10 -0400, Martha Lee <marthaleenc at gmail.com> wrote:

>I'm using FM 9 and Mif2Go package 33, revision 53. I'm outputting OmniHelp.
>Everything looks fine in Mozilla Firefox, but in Internet Explorer, random
>symbol font letters do not display correctly. For example, the Greek
>letters sigma and phi displays in the correct Symbol font, but theta and
>psi display as question marks. This letters are all created the same way.
>Any ideas why in IE some letters would display properly and others wouldn't?

That's odd.  OmniHelp is pure Unicode, as is FM9, so we
don't use Symbol at all (unless you specify it as an
override in your .ini).  Instead we put out the actual
Greek letters, which would be present in Arial Unicode
for example.

It would be a good idea to update to the current version
4.0, rev 54.  If it still happens with that, we'll need a
test case.  We haven't noticed the problem here...

To update, you need to create an account on the new
Web site for Mif2Go:
  http://mif2go.com
Your user name cannot contain punctuation, so don't use
your email address for it; also don't use the one we sent
you for the previous site.

HTH!

-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
  <jeremy at omsys.com>    http://mif2go.com/