Re: HTML entities (was Re: a very interesting case system)

* Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan said on 2003-02-05 03:49:43 +0100
> On Feb 4, Narivek Shotale said:
>
> >How does one make diacritical markings and special
> >characters (thorn, adh) on the Internet?
Which part of the internet? It's more than just webpages you know.

> Here's one site:
>
>   http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/ipa-unicode.htm
>
> You can make thorn with þ and Þ (for lower- and upper-case),
> but I can't find a name for the adh character; use the web site's
> numerical value (ð).
This'll work on webpages and is dependent on the reader of the pages
having the right fonts, probably not a real problem anymore unless
even new Macs avoids thorn and eth, as they certainly did in version 9.

The "right", forward-looking way now is to write the webpages in utf8.
I know how to do that on most unices but don't ask me how to do it any-
where else. It's probably hidden in an option somewhere anyway.


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