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Re: Best way to write the registered trademark symbol in HTML?
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Sat, 9 Jan 1999 06:17:23 GMT
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On Sat, 9 Jan 1999 02:57:13 GMT, lehman@javanet.com (Todd Lehman)
wrote:

> sparre@sys-323.risoe.dk (Jacob Sparre Andersen) writes:
> 
> > > 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.
> > 
> > I looked it up. It's on position 8482 (decimal) in Unicode.
> 
> 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 the TM symbol) to use
> than  ™ ?
> 
> 
> > 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 font I
> >     use.
> 
> How big is that in relation to the regular capital letters T and M in that
> typeface?  And is it raised above the baseline?
> 
> What does this look like on your system--?
> 
>   <HTML><BODY>
>   T M &#153; --- &#8482; T M<BR>
>   <BODY></HTML>
> 
> --Todd

I just tried it on mine.  P133/win95

in Netscape 3:
the &#153 is a small, raised TM
the &#8482 is a  ?  question mark.

in MSIE 3.02:
the &#153 is a small raised TM
the &#8482 is a  "  quote character

-- Terry K --



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  Re: Best way to write the registered trademark symbol in HTML?
 
(...) Hey, awesome! I just tried &#153; and &#8482; 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 &#8482; "safer" (i.e., more likely to show up as (...) (28 years ago, 9-Jan-99, to lugnet.publish)

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