title: IE7 displays trademark entity as serif within sans-serif font
body: <p>I have a webpage that uses Google's <a href="http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Open+Sans" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Open Sans</a> font. The webpage also uses an HTML entity for the trademark symbol (<code>&amp;trade;</code>).</p>
  
  <p>In Internet Explorer 7, this entity is not displayed using Open Sans, it is displayed in a serif font:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/a4Z02.png" alt="IE7 rendering trademark entity incorrectly"></p>
  
  <p>Here is a short page that reproduces the problem:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE html&gt;
  &lt;html&gt;
      &lt;head&gt;
          &lt;link rel="stylesheet" href="//fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:400,700" /&gt;
          &lt;!--[if lte IE 8]&gt;
              &lt;link rel="stylesheet" href="//fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:400" /&gt;
              &lt;link rel="stylesheet" href="//fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:700" /&gt;
          &lt;![endif]--&gt;
          &lt;style type="text/css"&gt;
          * {
              font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif;
          }
          &lt;/style&gt;
      &lt;/head&gt;
      &lt;body&gt;
          &lt;h1&gt;This is trademarked&amp;trade;&lt;/h1&gt;
          &lt;p&gt;This is trademarked&amp;trade;&lt;/p&gt;
      &lt;/body&gt;
  &lt;/html&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Using the entity <code>&amp;#8482;</code> results in the same problem, as does using a literal ™, but oddly enough the <code>&amp;reg;</code> entity displays correctly.</p>
  
  <p>Is there anyway to get this entity to render either in Open Sans, or if that fails, in a sans-serif font?</p>