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I want to take characters in the Microsoft Symbol font (taken from the w:sym tag in a docx file) and render them in html. When I look at how Word writes out the characters when I save the doc as html, I see this:

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This appears as a script R in both Word and Word's html output.

When I write the same thing in my own html file, I see the A-hat in the regular font, and Chrome's element inspector warns that the mso- properties are unknown.

In Word's html output there is lots of mso-specific stuff but nothing I can see that lets Chrome know how to interpret mso-char-type and mso-symbol-font. I see the same behavior in IE.

Is there an easy way to tell the browser to use the Symbol font? Or do I have to explicitly translate the Symbol font characters to Unicode (using a static translation table?)

Thanks,

Wayne