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From: Varela, Marilyn
Date: Oct 6, 2009 1:45PM

Hi:



We have an image map of 14 flags in the footer of our website that
depict the alternate languages we offer information in. Please don't
respond to the issue of using flags for languages; I already lost that
debate. In order to display the native language instead of the English
name in the alt text and title attribute I am using the lang attribute
in the area element. All the languages show correctly in Firefox but
some of them do not display in IE. I get a row of boxes instead of
charcters.



Any ideas on how to fix this?



Thanks.



Marilyn



Marilyn Varela
Web Administrator
Employment Security Department
Phone: (360) 438-4772

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