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There's no single code font with a slashed zero that is reliably available cross platform.
Use Consolas (windows), Monaco (Mac), and Bitstream Vera Sans Mono (linux). You can specify all of them in a single font-face statement, although the names may be different from this -- I've often had to poke around to find the right names that would work.
Laura
On Aug 7, 2014, at 12:40 PM, Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com> wrote:
> I'm not looking for a character set reference and I'm not designing a web site.
>
> I'm looking for a dotted or slashed zero I can use in the code
> listings in my docs that will display properly on *all* in-house and
> customers' systems (which means Mac, Linux, and Windows) in all of the
> deliverables generated by my single-source tool chains.
>
> It's easy to make that happen on *some* systems.
>
> Using web fonts in Confluence is a hack, and not supported by the
> tools I use to generate web help. Maybe I could hack those as well, if
> I had time.
>
> On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Tony Chung <tonyc -at- tonychung -dot- ca> wrote:
>> Back to your original question, you're looking for a character set reference
>> and the problem is that not all fonts offer a dotted or slashed zero glyph.
>>
>> The Wikipedia page lists a few font names that offer the glyph which are
>> common to operating systems, but admits that the glyph's presence depends on
>> whether the designer included it or not.
>>
>> http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashed_zero
>>
>> I use Andale Mono. Any computer with MS Office installed should have it.
>> Then cascading fallbacks for different OSes would cover you somewhat.
>>
>> So if you have that much control over CSS why can't you use @font-face and
>> supply your own files?
>>
>> -Tony
>>
>>
>> On Thursday, August 7, 2014, Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Confluence is open source (!=free) so you can have as much control as
>>> you're nerdy enough to take, but for practical reasons I stick as
>>> close to the defaults as possible and tweak the CSS only to fix
>>> problems.
>>>
>>> https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Styling+Confluence+with+CSS
>>>
>>> "Web-safe" isn't just about fonts, it's about which characters you can
>>> use reliably. Having missing-glyph icons appear in your online help
>>> doesn't look very professional.
>>>
>>> Serif, sans-serif, and monospace are generic font keywords used by
>>> font-family, not fonts.
>>>
>>>
>>
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