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I’m making heavy use of → / ← arrow symbols in HTML so that i spare myself the pain of having to go with images. This is for an enclosed system, not for a public website.
Now i noticed that my client does not have those symbols in their charsets somehow – and i am wondering why. Since i am using CSS to select the font, the charset should be the same, right? And the symbols should be available. But they are not. Instead they just get blanks.
The font in use is Verdana.
Not necessarily: The font might not be installed on every machine, and fonts can have different versions. You can’t trust every client machine 100% to have exactly the font you need.
See this question for more background and approaches to determine font support for a specific glyph: Unicode support in Web standard fonts
The only way to make pretty sure the user has the correct font is to embed it into your web page using @font-face or using a hosted one by Google Web Fonts. In all browsers that support this method, you can then trust the same font to be delivered to every client.
However, embedding a font using
font-faceis tantamount to redistributing it, which most commercial licenses do not allow (see e.g. the Microsoft Typography FAQ). You would need to find a completely free font that allows redistribution this way – ideally one from Google’s portfolio, or from a place like the Open Font Library.