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(...) Reasonable argument, although we ought to fix the font and not make workarounds. (...) Because character number 153 in Unicode isn't a printable character. (...) It is a MS issue. Microsoft uses a character table that is equivalent to Latin-1 (...) (26 years ago, 8-Jan-99, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) I looked it up. It's on position 8482 (decimal) in Unicode. Play well, Jacob PS: I was wrong about Netscape. The newest version handles both ™ and ™ as a trademark symbol. - But it is approximately three times larger than ® in the (...) (26 years ago, 8-Jan-99, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Hmm, OK, so even though ™ is syntactically legal HTML, the semantics aren't defined in Unicode as the desired character...? And they just happen to work out to the TM symbol on a few popular platforms? (...) So ™ doesn't always mean (...) (26 years ago, 9-Jan-99, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Hey, awesome! I just tried ™ and ™ next to each other on a page, and they both worked on my system too. Since you know so much about this, can I ask another follow-up question?-- Is ™ "safer" (i.e., more likely to show up as (...) (26 years ago, 9-Jan-99, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) I just tried it on mine. P133/win95 in Netscape 3: the ™ is a small, raised TM the ™ is a ? question mark. in MSIE 3.02: the ™ is a small raised TM the ™ is a " quote character -- Terry K -- (26 years ago, 9-Jan-99, to lugnet.publish)
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Todd ... can't you specify the font you want used in your HTML pages? Your little demo didn't work at all on my system, but then again it might be my system. Netscape 4.5 (...) -- Lee Jorgensen -- Custom Programmer mailto://ljorgensen@uswest.net (...) (26 years ago, 9-Jan-99, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Sorta -- but not in a cross-platform way, which is the problem anyway. (26 years ago, 9-Jan-99, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Sort of... An HTML document can, using the FACE attribute of the <FONT> tag, give a list of suggested fonts with which to render a section of text, but there's no guarantee that the font you want exists on the user's system, or that the HTML (...) (26 years ago, 10-Jan-99, to lugnet.publish)
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The in-lined HTML code ... url's work fine, but this little bit didn't. (...) -- Lee Jorgensen -- Custom Programmer mailto://ljorgensen@uswest.net Ban-Koe Systems, Inc. <-- I am NOT a spokesperson for my company. (26 years ago, 10-Jan-99, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Oh. I see what you mean. No, that wasn't supposed to work in the context of the news article. You'd have to cut & paste it into a file on your local system to view it. --Todd (...) (26 years ago, 10-Jan-99, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) I would expect ™ to be just as likely to work as ™ today. I expect ™ to be phased out sometime, but I don't know when (it might happen with NC5.0). (...) You can see the rendering of <P> T M ™ --- ™ T M<BR> <P> (...) (26 years ago, 11-Jan-99, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Oh, man, I see what you mean now. I can't believe how braindead Netscape 4.61 for RHLinux/Gnome is under the default install. Not having the actual tm symbol is one thing, but it actually converts it to a 4-byte character string!! :-( BLYECH! (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jan-00, to lugnet.publish)
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