title: 'font-family: Symbol' and Windows-1252
body: <p>I have a bunch of HTML documents that contain some simple text in <code>Windows-1252</code> encoding, but throughout the text there are numerous appearances of <code>span</code> elements with <code>font-family: Symbol</code>.</p>
  
  <p>For example:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;span style='font-family:Symbol'&gt;Ñ&lt;/span&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Which appears as the greek delta - Δ in the browser.</p>
  
  <p>Google told me that using the <code>Symbol</code> font might show different results on different systems, as it's not actually a well defined font.<br>
  <strong>Is this really true? Is it "unsafe" to use the <code>Symbol</code> font?</strong></p>
  
  <p>If so, is there any way to reliably convert (on my own system) such symbols in the <code>Symbol</code> font to their <code>Windows-1252</code> counterparts?</p>