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Sorry to be of bother, but on re-reading the pi article, I realised
that I didn't actually get the pi symbol. I am using netscape on a
solaris box here at work, so not all the fonts availiable to the
wintel and mac world are on my system.
It's just a small niggle but one which gets my goat up because the
web is supposed to be platform (and browser) independent so it can
be accessed by everybody.

Must say it's a good article though

Uh oh! We tried to use a browser friendly symbol for pi - & pi; (without the space between & and pi- and I'm sorry that it doesn't work on your browser, specially as I fought for it to be included. Egg on my face! The fault is mine, not yours. Greek symbols don't seem to translate well to Unix based systems.
What can I say? You can borrow my greek dictionary if you like.

Thanks, at least you tried and that it's now a problem
known by some people.
I think I know what the symbol should look like by now.

It was a just to let you know post anyway, no hard feelings.

With me visiting from N.Z.just to remind U that "a" before "e" except after "c".

Sorry to be picky, but you're not using & pi ;, you're using the Unicode value: & # 960 ;

Neither of these seem to be supported by Netscape (at least up to 4.7). There is an interesting page at http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/sgml/entities.html which lists all these characters. A quick check reveals that Netscape is capable of reproducing almost all of the ISO8859-1 and almost all of the internationalisation ones, but virtually none of the greek/mathematical ones.

I don't see that there's much of an option except using a bitmap or putting up with the problem.

This problem of greek letters is something that has come up again with another article (http://www.h2g2.com/A260623 ). The author of that article has asked of the PTWVH what can be done, their reply is at http://www.h2g2.com/forumframe.cgi?thread=39804&forum=647 So if I could be bothered to get of my behind and do something about it (which I'm thinking about) then these problems wouldn't be problems any more.