Re: When you want one odd character....
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, May 18, 2002, 19:06 |
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On 18 May 02, at 8:35, Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:
> And some of them don't do the work of setting that up unless they
> know from the start that it's needed --- even though they might have
> a Unicode font.
Especially Netscape 4.x has that problem; apparently, it won't show
&#xxx; entities unless the page has a charset of utf-8.
> Ideally, character entities (the &# thingies) mean the same thing
> and are displayed identically by all browsers out there, no matter
> what character set the page is transmitted in. The HTML standard is
> quite clear on this issue --- you can use Unicode character entities
> even if your page is transmitted in Cyrillic or Mac Roman!
True. The difference between document character set (which is always
Unicode) and the content encoding (? not sure what it's called
exactly).
Cheers,
Philip
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Philip Newton <Philip.Newton@...>