- From: Harvey Bingham <hbingham@ACM.org>
- Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 01:16:08 -0500
- To: bosak@atlantic-83.Eng.Sun.COM (Jon Bosak)
- Cc: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
A few of the entity names are rendered on the Netscape 3.0 and MS Internet
Explorer 3.0 with suprising results.
A trailing ";" concluding an entity name for which there is a shorter
valid entity name prefix is retained as part of the text following the entity
substitution in Netscape.
That trailing ";" is discarded by MS Internet Explorer but the excess
characters are retained.
In both browsers at least one substitution is for a wrong character:
∉ is recognized by both browsers as ¬ and either "in;" or "in"
is retained after that substitution for the not, a known entity in ISO Latin 1.
Cedilla; should be cedilla;
What is the basis for picking up the Adobe symbol font?
Netscape retains the form of unrecognized entities.
Internet Explorer retains the prefix of unrecognized entities, discarding
the ";".
At 15:17 1996/11/09 -0800, you wrote (with much deleted):
>Thus, the list of ISO entities predefined in XML is as follows (list
>courtesy of Bob Stayton, SCO):
>
Current anomalies in support:
>ISO Latin 1
>======= Netscape 3.0 MS Internet
¨ die unknown, ok
keeps ¨
¯on; macron ok but as macr ok but as macr
keeps on; or on keeps on or on
°ree; degree ok but as deg ok but as deg
keeps ree; or ree keeps ree or ree
¸ Cedilla unknown, keeps all ok+keeps la
(should be ¸la;
as lower-case) ¸la ok, ok
keeps la; or la keeps la la
Adobe Symbol Font
===================
Only ones I found supported are:
>notin wrong symbol wrong symbol
keeps in; or in keeps in; or in
>trade unknown, ok, as raised
keeps all smallcap TM
Regards/Harvey
Received on Sunday, 10 November 1996 01:16:25 UTC