Default Chinese Characters in SSRS - reporting-services

We use SSRS (2008 R2) to present data from several languages. We use labels with the Arial font. If the characters loaded from the database cannot be presented by Arial, SSRS converts them automatically to the relevant font that includes the special characters.
It works well with several languages. However, with Chinese the default choice of SSRS is font MingLiu. This font is quite uncommon in mainland China and the locals say that it is unusable. I would like to use the SimSun font instead.
How do I configure SSRS to force SimSun instead of MingLiu? Of course, I can create new labels with the SimSun font, but that will require recreation of all the existing reports that are already configured with Arial.
Thanks

My boss found a solution to force the SimSun font:
Each one of the report's Placeholder should be configured as HTML.
This is done via the placeholder's properties / General, and then
choose "HTML - Interpret HTML tags as styles" instead of the default
"None - Plain text only"
The value to be assigned to the placeholder should
include the HTML tags to force the SimSun font. For example: <font face="SimSun">订单确认</font>

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How to REALLY disable emoji for symbols

I would like to use a regular symbol (the up-right-arrow) in a Wordpress menu. I copied the symbol character into the required field and it looks good on desktop. For some reason, the iPhone I use displays an emoji instead of the character. I already activated the Wordpress plugin "Disable Emojis" but this doesn't help. How do I force smartphones to display the simple black arrow instead of a colored arrow emoji?
The usual searches just bring up the idea with the Wordpress plugin which probably disables emojis globally but still lets smartphones override that.
Screenshots (Imgur)
You will never get the same emoji / symbol depending on os, service, browser, app, etc ... because it is interpreted.
Find below some examples :
1. On Twitter
2. On FaceBook
3. On Instagram
4. On WordPress wysiwyg as text content
5. On WordPress wysiwyg as visual content
For the text variant, use the text presentation sequence:
U+2197 U+FE0E (↗︎)
For the emoji variant, use the emoji presentation sequence:
U+2197 U+FE0F (↗️)
For the default variant, use only the character:
U+2197 (↗)
but, as already mentioned, how will it be displayed by default depends on many factors: OS, browser, etc.
See: Emoji Presentation Sequences, v11.0

How to use RTF content is jasper report

I am using Jasper Report 5.6.0 + JSF 2.2 + Primefaces 5.2
My problem is in detail band (content) of the jrxml I am passing RTF from pe:ckEditor here. This editor have many rich components e.g. tables, radio, fonts etc.
In generated document many styles escaped automatically. like table or font. While that text-field markup is html.
More: font will be changed if i generate html instead of pdf. and my rough guess is if any font that is not in JasperReport -> iText library it will escaped automatically
To render RTF text you use markup="rtf" on the textElement, however you will not be able to render tables, text alignment, box's ecc.
This feature is only for producing styled text., how the text looks (bold, size, color ecc.)
What are your options?
Convert to html and use the HTML Renderer Component, note neither this is perfect since it will renderer and image of your html (problem with overflow and size).
Create your own RTF component, I have not seen an RTF Renderer Component and I don't think there are any open tracker for this feature request in the JasperSoft Community
Parse the RTF in java and use dynamic jasper to generate your report (or subreport relative to the RTF)
When generating pdf, if font extension is not provided , iText will use (quoting #Bruno Lowagie) "its best effort" to render your font, this often is not enough. Consider adding font-extension to your project
Check list for rendering font in pdf using jasper report
How to add font extensions using iReport or JasperSoft Studio
Note: If you are using the HTML Renderer Component this will not be needed since it is rendering an image.

Use specific glyph name with no Unicode value in HTML?

How can I use for example the glyph name "rcaron.terminal" which has no Unicode value in HTML? or any other such case? Is it even possible? I think it must be surely but I got no clue. It's easy for regular letters like the glyph "ß" where I would just type "&#xDF" and get that character or "&#223" (same result) but for glyphs without any Unicode value I don't know what I'm supposed to do...? I've tried also "&rcaron.terminal" but nothing, where as something like "&hearts" would work giving a heart glyph of god knows what font, probably Arial I dunno.
Do I need to use state some specific encoding aside from ANSI in my html document?
ie. < meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-8" > or something... like Im really lost lol
All I found on the net was this http://text-symbols.com/html/unicode/ but I cant find any more info so I came here.
Please help! Thanks! :)
There are no glyphs in HTML which do not have a Unicode name.
If you really need to have a glyph which is not representable using regular Unicode, you might want to create a font of your own and define the glyphs you need in the private use area; but obviously, then, your HTML will be impossible to use without that particular font.
Background links:
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2008/10/embedded-web-fonts/
http://www.font-face.com/
Practical guides:
http://blog.fogcreek.com/trello-uses-an-icon-font-and-so-can-you/
http://blogs.atlassian.com/2013/07/how-to-make-an-icon-font-the-8-step-guide/
First navigate to this site: https://fontdrop.info/#/?darkmode=true
Upload the file with your font
Click on the Ligatures tab.
Every Glyph should have a Components field
copy the components for the character you want to use
paste that string into HTML
You don't need any & or #, it just detects the string and converts it.

How to convert MS Outlook smiley (Wingdings) to something displayable in a browser?

In the noble effort to re-invent every wheel, our company has recently rolled our own custom web-based e-mail app, of which I was the primary designer.
One thing I've noticed is that smileys coming in from MS Outlook-based e-mails (sent from third parties) are not appearing correctly. Example: A happy face just displays a J
The HTML of the inbound message comes in like this:
<span style="...;font-family:Wingdings;...">J</span>
I know that Firefox and Chrome do not support the Wingdings font because it is non-standard. However, I am tasked with coming up with a fix.
Is there a good way to either 1) force the browser to load and use Wingdings or 2) otherwise convert the J to a smiley?
I'd rather not do anything crazy like try some wingdings-detection-regex - or even worse, parse the DOM - just to get some stupid emoticons working. Maybe there is already some library out there that already handles this?
For what it's worth, GMail seems to not 'fix' this problem either. iOS doesn't in the message view, but puzzlingly does fix it in the inbox view (replaces the J w/ emoji)
EDIT
To clarify, this question is regarding inbound messages from third parties. Outlook, by default, autocorrects ":)" to the Wingdings smiley. There's nothing I can do to prevent this coming in. What I need is a solution to correct for this.
EDIT 2
Again, the app itself is a web based e-mail client (Gmail, etc.). E-mails go in to here, NOT to users' individual Outlook/phones/other e-mail clients. It only goes into the web app.
To avoid having to parse the HTML or manipulating the DOM, a simple solution would be to use CSS3 web fonts by linking the Wingdings font-family to a copy of the Wingdings font file on your server:
<style>
#font-face {
font-family: Wingdings;
src: url(link_to_wingdings_font_file.ttf);
}
</style>
However, a license is required for this approach.
You could embed the SWEC (Symbola-based Wingdings Emoticons Compatibility) font: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwDrnPQfa-aMOEx0bEZCQUNrSGs
It provides basic compatibility with Wingdings emoticons. (In Wingdings, "J" represents a smile, "K" represents a lack of expression, and "L" represents a frown.) Background: certain versions of Microsoft e-mail clients still in use change user-typed expressions such as ":)", ":|", and ":(" into "J", "K", and "L", respectively, and then specify Wingdings as the font family; recipients on systems which do not include a Wingdings-compatible font are not able to see the intended emoticons, which can cause confusion.
You need to manually substitute it prior to sending the email as you have no control over what fonts the reader has installed. You also can't include anything outside bland old html and css (unless you want to mess with VML)
First I would try running your wingding through a html converter to see if there is a html code for it.
Besides that, you could try a webfont wingdings equivalent, however there are issues with Outlook playing nice when webfonts are imported in email (ignores your font stack, falling back to Times New Roman).
Besides that, all that is left is ZephyrusDigital's suggestions of using an image or :).
Against my better judgement I have decided to go for the quick hack and just use a regular expression. Here it is for anyone else that runs into the same problem:
$html = preg_replace('/\<SPAN*?(Wingdings)*?[^\>]*\>J(\<o\:p\>\<\/o\:p\>)*\<\/SPAN\>/i', ' :) ', $html);
use :)
kidding!
why not save the wingdings smiley in photoshop as a png, or make another custom one? you could use <img src="http://something.com/images/smiley.png" style="display:inline-block;"/> and it won't look weird in a text block as long as it isn't taller than your line-height.

symbols are not displayed properly in mozilla

I have problem with a web page where it is display some symbols wrongly only in mozilla. The page is click here In this page there are so many -> symbols used. It is displayed as ® in mozilla. So how can i make it to display properly as -> symbol in mozilla. The page has style which are created by micosoft word. I want to retain those as it is.So any css trick can i use it to do?
To get the error i am facing please go to this page and search for software ® click ‘Buy now’.
You use specific Microsoft extensions :
<span style="mso-list:Ignore">§<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span>
And defining fonts in style enclosing them with " is clearly buggy.
I don't know what MSWord tries to do but it's obviously not trying to build a standard HTML document for the World Wide Web. Is that a recent version ?
You'll have to fix the generated HTML.
Another problem is that your rendering relies on the Times New Roman font, which isn't available in non Windows computer.
Using standard HTML and encoding your document in UTF-8, you could replace those spans with simple arrow characters.
But the better solution would be to simply forget the idea to convert a MSOffice document to HTML and to build a proper HTML document instead.