Re: [LUG] HTML !

[Matthew Browning <mb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Mark Harvey wrote:
| On Friday 20 September 2002 23:50, you wrote:
|
|>On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Steve Marvell wrote:
|>
|>>On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 06:09:16PM +0100, Nick Kew wrote:
|>>
|>>>On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Alex Stanley wrote:
|>>>
|>>>>™
|>>>
|>>>That's not HTML.  It looks a lot like a Microsoft-ism, though.
|>>
|>>Actually, it looks like it to me :)
|>
|>Nope.  Numeric entities between 128 and 159 are explicitly undefined.
|>It won't show as TM in (AFAIK) any non-Windows browser unless you have
|>configured windows-emulation.
|>
|>Any RiscOS folks around?  AIUI RiscOS has its own meanings for these
|>undefined entities, and they are *different* from the Windoze-proprietary
|>characters, so RiscOS users can expect to see something altogether
|>different again.
|>
|
| Yup - Just checked on my RiscOS machine - Character 153 is the em
rule. The
| trademark symbol under RiscOS is  - ther you go!
|
| Another kludge - how about creating a small gif (png?) picture of the TM
| character? <stands well back from the flames>
|


Umm.

`HTML and XHMTL - The Definitive Guide', ORA, Musciano and Kennedy
(fourth ed):

Trademark sign: &#153;, no named entity.  Caveat: not formally defined
by any standard, use at your own risk.

Registered trademark: &#174;.  No such caveat.

MB


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