Conformance to Standards (Special Characters in MSIE)

From: Ms. Browser Standard (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/28/04 

Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 10:46:07 -0800

From:
http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/online-preface.html

"We normally test with the latest build of Mozilla.
If some of the special characters above look wrong,
your browser has bugs in its standards-conformance
and you should replace it."

This last line suggests that Microsoft Internet Explorer 6
does not support the standard for special characters.

Is this true?

If so, What is the reasoning behind its non-conformance?

In either case, Is there some means of rendering these
characters as the author intended using a plug-in for MSIE?

Thanks in advance!

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