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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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Sat, 9 Jan 1999 02:52:20 GMT
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sparre@sys-323.risoe.dk (Jacob Sparre Andersen) writes:
> > > ™ may work well on your browser, but it
> > >
> > > 1) is not legal HTML
> >
> > Huh? Why isn't ™ 100%-legal HTML?
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> Because character number 153 in Unicode isn't a printable
> character.
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?
> > > 2) does not work on DEC-Unix and Linux (haven't tested on other systems)
> >
> > 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?
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> 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.
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> Neither Netscape nor Lynx will show ™ as a trademark
> symbol. It is the same on both Digital Unix and Linux.
So ™ doesn't always mean "trademark symbol" to Netscape? -- instead, it
means "whatever happens to be at character position 153 in the font"? I
guess that makes sense...but it severely limits the usefulness of &#nnn;
entitites... :-(
--Todd
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