Arabic characters and IE

[mvalentino]

Can't seem to find a solution to this...

I have pages being served in English and embedded in them are some Unicode characters such as & #x02BF;. In Netscape 7 or Firefox 0.8 the characters are fine, but Explorer 6 just displays an empty square character. I've also tried using the decimal version, & #703;.

I've already tried adding Arabic to my Regional Options and to the Language Options in IE without success.

The only thing close to a fix I've found is to change the font in IE, but Firefox and Netscape work without doing that, I'd like to get IE to do the same.

Anyone have ideas?

[bcolflesh]

Did you install the Arabic Language Support download from WindowsUpdate?

[mvalentino]

Not through Windows Update (I can't seem to find an install there, only instructions on how to change the language of the site to Arabic). But, when I added Arabic to the Regional Options under my Contro Panel I was prompted for my Windows 2000 install CD to complete the process.

Is there something else I need from Windows Update?

[bcolflesh]

Check the reqs here - sounds like you installed it from the CD though:

[microsoft.com...]

[mvalentino]

It does sound like making the change to the Regional Options took care of this, but I'm not sure. On one of my machines IE isn't even in the Add/Remove Programs screen. On another, it's there, but I can't add a component.