Alexandre Dantas <eu@alexdantas.net> writes: > So, back to the team website; I made a draft that anyone can see live > here[4] and the entire code is available on a Git repository[5]. I looked at it and saw that you used quite some weird characters on the page. Likely, the font you used on your development machine does contain the characters you want to show there, but most, if not all other fonts will differ at that place. This means that the page is only looks right if the browser is using the font that you used during development. This is similar to including characters in a text file that only looks correct if the user has Wingdings installed – and hampers accessibility, interoperability and maintainability in similar ways. I am seeing the following glyphs on the page that are probably not quite what you intended: The digit 7 in a filled box () besides “Get Involved”, the ligature for fl () besides “Wiki”, some kind of cross () besides “Packages”, a small serif p () besides “Choose Theme”, the number 8 in an outlined box () besides “Alioth Project”, a 4 lowered below the baseline () besides “Introductory Information”, the number 19 in an outlined box () besides “Various useful links”. Do not dismiss this – I actually thought that “Introductory Information” was section 4 and tried to scroll up until I realized that there are no sections 1 to 3. But do not worry: This happens to be a common mistake among new web developers and can easily be fixed – just use the right Unicode codepoints! I can infer from the class name “glyphicon-book” that you want to show the glyph for “book” besides “Wiki”. Unicode has several characters for books, like U+1F4D3 NOTEBOOK (📓), U+1F4D5 CLOSED BOOK (📕) or U+1F4D6 OPEN BOOK (📖). See <http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1F300.pdf> for a non-exhaustive list of miscellaneous symbols and pictographs. (Disclaimer: I have drawn lots of Unicode symbols for GNU Unifont.) Greetings, -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann <http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>
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