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Not really an encoding problem, I suppose the issue arises because the fallback font does not have those symbols. I can't test on Windows but if someone could point me to a font which has those mathematics characters on Windows I'll gladly specify that font.

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The browser is supposed to find a font that does have them in that case, so I guess no font does. Ssame on iPad.

Can you point me to something that shows this? I know font family declarations with multiple fonts will fall back but I've never heard of this before. FWIW, the site only declares one typeface "Lucida Grande" so I assume to browser is falling back to the default Sans-serif on windows.

It is quoted in various places eg http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/html/characters.html although some sources eg http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=lxndiWaFMvMC&pg=PA65&... says that IE does not do this. Still looking for original spec though.

Can you try "Lucida Sans Unicode"?

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