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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.
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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