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

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 ſ 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
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Philip Newton <Philip.Newton@...>

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