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Ken Hirsch <[log in to unmask]>
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Ken Hirsch <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 14 Apr 2004 10:35:07 -0400
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From: "Tracy Pierce" <[log in to unmask]>
> When I insert a special character's unicode into the file, I take special
> pains to really pass correct lengths so I'll end up with aligned columns,
> but it seems that "sometimes", MSIE tries to "help".  In this example, each
> occurrence of "&#x251C;" etc produces one character of output; the rest of
> the data on each line is perfectly padded to make things come out nicely.
> But on those lines which contain <unicodedspecialchar> followed by a space,
> my columns get all messed up, grrr!

It looked fine for me on Win2K, but when I looked at it from home on WinXP, I
saw the problem you were describing--even though both are using IE
6.0.2800.1106.

Work around: replace space by &nbsp;

N.B. You should replace your ampersands by &amp;

I put the file up with both versions at
http://invent3k.external.hp.com/~KEN.HIRSCH/tracy.html

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