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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 16:53:31 GMT
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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
Todd Lehman wrote:
> 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?
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > 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.
>
> 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
--
Lee Jorgensen -- Custom Programmer
mailto://ljorgensen@uswest.net
Ban-Koe Systems, Inc. <-- I am NOT a spokesperson for my company.
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