Special Character not rending in IE but renders in Firefox

[Imaster]

The following special character code ∉ shows well in Firefox, but not in IE when I try it locally on my desktop.

The same code also exists in several websites and it displays the output perfectly.

The first question that I had was that maybe I was not saving my html file properly, so I copy-pasted the complete source of one such website where it was displaying correctly onto my html page where it was not displaying properly.

And it worked well.

Any solutions?

[kaled]

IE and Firefox do different things in the absence of a specified charset value.

If you are relying on http headers to specify the charset (rather than using http-equiv in your html) then browsers won't know what character set to use when viewed locally on the desktop.

Kaled.

[rocknbil]

More info on this issue. [webmasterworld.com]

[icantthinkofone]

From Wikipedia:
"Internet Explorer supports the Unicode standard for multilingual text, and is therefore theoretically capable of displaying any character which is present in an installed font. In practice, Internet Explorer does not automatically choose fonts for blocks of mixed Unicode text. Characters can end up displayed as blank squares or question marks.

Web designers must guess which appropriate fonts may be present on users' computers, and manually specify them for every change of Unicode block. In contrast, most other browsers do this automatically."