Some guys write in html code( i guess) some math symbols like existence sign. Why my computer does not display them?
2007-12-15 11:28:18 · 3 answers · asked by Theta40 7 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
like the way Pascal writes the function here:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AoeADP1supNGgEBtqBj2LMHsy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20071215154519AA4LY9Q
2007-12-15 11:29:17 · update #1
It would be the font. Some characters that are combined to one international set are now unused in different fonts. Since they have gone to using a different font having the respective characters for the language/font then the ones taken out are replaced by the square. Since several of these characters are boxes it's hard to tell what the character is. The font you need is possibly not installed on the computer, and is being substituted for another font that is close but maybe lacking the symbol you need to display correctly.
2007-12-15 11:37:43 · answer #1 · answered by wowwee 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The reason you may see white boxes on some of our answers is because those answers include unicode math symbols, and not all fonts contain a corresponding symbol. If your computer doesn't have the default font for Y!A (which is Lucidia sans console -- I think, it might be lucidia sans unicode), it will try to display it in a different font. If that font does not contain the corresponding unicode characters, it will display only a white box.
Sorry about that by the way -- sometimes I forget that not everyone's computer has the same setup mine does.
2007-12-15 19:43:10 · answer #2 · answered by Pascal 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
your computer might be out of date or does not recognize the symbols
it happens to me too.
2007-12-15 19:32:27 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋