RE: Use of Symbols

Hello,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/sgml/entities.html
> <!ENTITY pound CDATA "&#163;" -- pound sign U+00A3 ISOnum -->
>
> So:
> You can use &pound; instead of &#163; for readability in
> HTML/4.01. Charset
> *shouldn't* matter then (although you'd still need the underlying font to
> have the character defined)
oh yes, of course, I forgot to write about that solution.

And it, of course, also works in XHTML 1.0, XHTML 1.1 and XHTML Basic 1.0 -
but not plain XML because in plain the only predefined Entities are gt, lt,
amp, quot and apos.

There's a big number of such predefined entities giving character entities a
more sounding name.
This list can be found at:

XHTML newer than XHTML 1.0
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-modularization/dtd_module_defs.html#a_xhtml_chara
cter_entities

XHTML 1.0
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#dtds
(Entity Sets)

HTML 4.01
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/sgml/entities.html


Greetings

Christian