web-safe fonts & characters 2014

Subject: web-safe fonts & characters 2014
From: Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>
To: TECHWR-L Writing <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>, "framers -at- lists -dot- frameusers -dot- com" <framers -at- lists -dot- frameusers -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2014 11:35:09 -0700

Has anyone seen an authoritative reference for this?

If I'm not writing man pages or working with some legacy CMS or help
authoring tool, I use curved quotes, em and en dashes, and ellipses,
but I can't cite any authority for doing so.

I've yet to succeed in finding a web-safe monofont with a slashed or
dotted zero.

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