IE6 bad displaying unicode: ☨

Question

I have strange problem in IE6: When I'm trying to display "cross of lorraine" - I actually get something like empty rectangle, it's bad displayed in ie6. How can I workaround this problem? Cross of lorraine: ☨

I don't like workaround with displaying image with it for IE6 only

Ok I've actually found: this - but for cross of lorraine (☨) does not working

source file: index.html:

<html>
<head>
    <meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type" />
</head>
<body>
&#9768;
</body>
</html>

add this little script to your website: http://code.google.com/p/ie6-upgrade-warning/ — Willem, Feb 25 '11 at 15:23
@Willem you just saved me a lot of time implementing one of my own :) — Dan Hanly, Feb 25 '11 at 15:33
@smas, Can you provide example code? Specifically I'd like to see the doctype and encoding for your page, and the markup surrounding the character. Also, what fontset is your page using? — KatieK, Feb 25 '11 at 17:34
I am fairly sure this is a font issue. Does this work in other browsers on the same system? — Pekka, Feb 25 '11 at 18:11
it works correctly in other browsers - only IE6 has the problem. I think similar that this is font problem and I was searching font which support this in IE6 (I tried Arial Unicode MS) but still don't work. — lukastymo, Feb 25 '11 at 18:17

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 02 '11 at 00:32

IE6 cannot display all of the Unicode characters available. IE6 cannot display that one.

I've tried quite a few different encodings and fonts, all to no avail. Even Wikipedia cannot make IE6 display that character.

You will need to use a workaround such as an image or substitute character for IE6.

IE6 bad displaying unicode: ☨

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