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Re: When you want one odd character....

From:Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
Date:Friday, May 17, 2002, 20:02
On 17 May 02, at 8:01, Clint Jackson Baker wrote:

> I want to use the candy-cane-looking symbol for a > capital /S/, and use ƒ for the lowercase. Obviously, > you can see which one I can't render with any code. I > can put it in a Word document, but it doesn't > translate into anything for a webpage.
LATIN SMALL LETTER LONG S? That's U+017F. So &#383; should work, assuming that your browser's favourite font includes that letter. (And if you're using Netscape 4.x, you need to set the page encoding to UTF- 8 so that the browser will accept &#xxx; entities with xxx > 255.)
> Ideas?
Use the HTML numeric entity. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton <Philip.Newton@...>

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