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Re: Best way to write the registered trademark symbol in HTML?
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lugnet.publish
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Fri, 8 Jan 1999 17:29:37 GMT
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Todd Lehman (lehman@javanet.com) wrote:
> sparre@sys-323.risoe.dk (Jacob Sparre Andersen) writes:
> > Why insert the font modification? I think LEGO® renders fine.
>
> Because the ® symbol in typical typefaces (Times, etc.) on typical
> systems (Windoze, Mac, etc.) displays as a large, obnoxious O-sized symbol
> instead of a nice little raised o-sized symbol like TM (™) does.
Reasonable argument, although we ought to fix the font and
not make workarounds.
> > ™ may work well on your browser, but it
> >
> > 1) is not legal HTML
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> Huh? Why isn't ™ 100%-legal HTML?
Because character number 153 in Unicode isn't a printable
character.
> > 2) does not work on DEC-Unix and Linux (haven't tested on other systems)
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> Is it really an OS issue, or is it a browser character-set mapping issue?
> Are you saying that if you run Netscape 4.5 on Linux, ™ doesn't show up
> as a TM symbol? Or that if you run Lynx under DEC-Unix or Linux, it doesn't
> show up as a TM symbol?
It is a MS issue. Microsoft uses a character table that is
equivalent to Latin-1 except for the positions 128 to 159
where they have inserted various useful characters that
appears at other locations in Unicode.
Neither Netscape nor Lynx will show ™ as a trademark
symbol. It is the same on both Digital Unix and Linux.
> Admittedly, the mapping ™ -> TM is a Netscape extension, but it's been
> around forever, and MSIE has picked it up, and it works on Macs as well as
> Windoze systems, and these two browsers and platforms together still account
> for almost all web trafic. It's too bad that the alternatives to a ™
> are so messy... :-( Also too bad that there isn't a &tm; entity that would
> display properly everywhere. Even ® and © don't display properly
> everywhere. :-(
I can't remember the position of the trademark symbol in
Unicode (it's a four-digit number), but it is there. I will
try to find it, so we can see if any of the popular browsers
can handle it.
Play well,
Jacob
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