- From: Masayasu Ishikawa <mimasa@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 22:06:06 +0900
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
This is really off-topic for this list, but it seems some issues should be clarified ... crism@exemplary.net (Christopher R. Maden) wrote: > You can try π or π (not &960; as someone suggested) or π. > The entity π is defined in HTML 4.0; 3C0 hexadecimal (960 decimal) is > the "code point" of the lower-case Greek letter pi in the Unicode character > set. Right. > However, π will only work in HTML 4.0 browsers; π will only > work in some browsers if the document character encoding is defined as > UTF-8 or another full Unicode encoding; To clarify: numeric character references should work regardless of character encoding. π SHALL be interpreted as "GREEK SMALL LETTER PI" even if the document is encoded in US-ASCII (or whatever). Indeed there are some user agents which incorrectly treat NCRs differently depending on character encoding, but please note that such behavior is non-conforming. > and π will only work in > post-XML browsers (the convention originated in XML, and was adopted into > SGML and thence to HTML). Some pre-XML browsers support hexadecimal numeric character references, sush as Alis Technologies' Tango browser. Tango does display π as "GREEK SMALL LETTER PI". Regards, -- Masayasu Ishikawa / mimasa@w3.org W3C - World Wide Web Consortium
Received on Wednesday, 27 October 1999 09:05:21 UTC