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Asked: 2026-06-18T14:27:43+00:00

I have a bunch of HTML documents that contain some simple text in Windows-1252

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I have a bunch of HTML documents that contain some simple text in Windows-1252 encoding, but throughout the text there are numerous appearances of span elements with font-family: Symbol.

For example:

<span style='font-family:Symbol'>Ñ</span>

Which appears as the greek delta – Δ in the browser.

Google told me that using the Symbol font might show different results on different systems, as it’s not actually a well defined font.
Is this really true? Is it “unsafe” to use the Symbol font?

If so, is there any way to reliably convert (on my own system) such symbols in the Symbol font to their Windows-1252 counterparts?

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  1. Editorial Team

    It’s been always unsafe to rely on having certain font installed on all the computers/smartphones/gadgets that visit your site. There’re some font embedding techniques that work reasonably well in some modern browsers but you’d need to repack the Symbol font and I doubt the copyright owner allows you to do it.

    Of course, most characters in the Symbol font are not in the Windows-1252 encoding but that should not be an issue. You can use the following map to obtain the appropriate HTML entities. However, you’ll have to write a script or program using a programming language (HTML is just a markup language).

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