I write some special characters in quizes with the font symbol. In IE the character is OK but in firefox it appears in a different font. What ist wrong?
Moodle 1.82, Apache 2.x, Debian Etch, IE7, Firefox 2.x, German
The problem is still open. How can I be sure the caracter display correct on both or any browser? Is the symbol font not the same in firefox and IE?
Don't use symbol font in web pages - use unicode... 
Pickers like http://www.guntherkrauss.de/computer/xml/daten/edicode.html
or http://people.w3.org/rishida/scripts/uniview/
or links for typing Unicode Greek in
http://www.biblicalgreek.org/links/fonts.php#Unicode%20Keyboards
might help.
(If you really need to get FF to display letters in the standard Symbol font you need to alter a configuration file called fontEncoding.properties.
1. Find it - usually from C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\res\fonts
2. Open fontEncoding.properties with a text editor such as Notepad.
3. Find the line containing the symbols definition. It should look like:
# Symbol font
encoding.symbol.ttf = Adobe-Symbol-Encoding
4. Comment out the existing line by placing a '#' character at the beginning of the line.
5. Now enter
encoding.symbol.ttf = windows-1252
The result should look like :
# Symbol font
# encoding.symbol.ttf = Adobe-Symbol-Encoding
encoding.symbol.ttf = windows-1252
6. Save the file and restart Firefox.
However this is a bad solution because all users of Firefox should do the same - better to use unicode.)
You could also try something like http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1689425
Does anyone you the special font in the editor (not latex)? The same problem with displaying in firefox?