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Re: Best way to write the registered trademark symbol in HTML?
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Date: 
Mon, 11 Jan 1999 14:17:28 GMT
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Todd Lehman (lehman@javanet.com) wrote:

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  ™ ?

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).

How big is that in relation to the regular capital letters T and M in that
typeface?  And is it raised above the baseline?

You can see the rendering of

<P>
   T M &#153; --- &#8482; T M<BR>
<P>
[tm]=&#8482;

at <URL:http://hugin.risoe.dk/temp/trademark_symbol>. It looks like NC
substitutes the trademark symbol with [tm], if it can't find it in the
current font.


Play well,

Jacob

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  &#153; &#8482; and [tm] woes
 
(...) 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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  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 (...) (26 years ago, 9-Jan-99, to lugnet.publish)

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