Can't display character on IE 9

Question

This character ❯ doesn't appear correctly on IE 9, despite setting UTF-8 charset. What do I do?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 19 '12 at 23:04

IE often has serious difficulties in rendering a character when it does not exist in the fonts specified for an element or, in the absence of such specifications, in the browser’s default font.

The cure is to specify a list of fonts know to contain the character. For “❯” U+276F HEAVY RIGHT-POINTING ANGLE QUOTATION MARK ORNAMENT (a rather special character), font coverage is very limited. Most computers have no font containing it. You can specify a font list like the following:

 font-family: DejaVu Sans, Symbola, Everson Mono, Dingbats, Segoe UI Symbol,
 Quivira, unifont;

But most users lack all of these fonts. You might consider using a downloadable font (web font) with @font-face. DejaVu fonts, Symbola, and Quivira are free fonts, though they are rather large in file size.

More info: Guide to using special characters in HTM.