tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6574161903694799474.post1902609317732691320..comments2021-08-20T06:29:17.218-07:00Comments on Journal of Total Obscurity: Quick test for Ancient Egyptian in web browsers (September 2010)Bob Richmondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07533704223626940907noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6574161903694799474.post-90435032220884693322010-09-29T10:21:23.907-07:002010-09-29T10:21:23.907-07:00After further investigation, it transpires that Fi...After further investigation, it transpires that Firefox 3.6 (and Firefox 4 Beta 6) work fine with transliteration and hieroglyphs. Well done Mozilla!<br /><br />However there is a problem with the editing software here on blogspot.com which causes incorrect HTML to be generated: apparently &#55308;&#56639; is an incorrect way of representing Unicode character codes > 0x0FFFF.<br /><br />Unfortunately since Chrome, Internet Explorer and Safari all process this invalid format, I mistakenly took this to be a bug in Firefox rather than a bug in the other three.<br /><br />To avoid the Blospot bug, see http://jtotobsc.wordpress.com/2010/09/29/test-page-for-ancient-egyptian-hieroglyphs-in-unicode-september-2010/.Bob Richmondhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07533704223626940907noreply@blogger.com