RE: non-sgml characters from Jon Hanna on 2002-07-15 (w3c-wai-ig@w3.org from July to September 2002)

From: Jon Hanna <jon@spin.ie>
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 12:54:39 +0100
To: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Message-ID: <NDBBLCBLIMDOPKMOPHLHIEHPEDAA.jon@spin.ie>

> I used "&#153;" on a site to represent the TM Symbol, an unregistered
> Trademark.  Apparently this is a reference to a non-SGML character.

Yep, 153 is the position in the windows character set. Its Unicode position
is 0x2122 (or 8482 in decimal) so you can use &#x2122; or &#8482;

You could also try &trade; though that depends more on browser support.

AFAIR There is no character 153 (though I'm not too sure), hence the browser
was able to realise you'd made a mistake and guess that you wanted the
windows character of that position.

(It's not an SGML thing as such, SGML uses character sets defined elsewhere,
similarly with XML - and hence HTML since HTML has been XML for the last 3
years).

Received on Monday, 15 July 2002 07:54:40 UTC