Thanks much, just what I was looking for.
I also found the Character Model document quite informative and at the
level I had in mind.
Sorry for the multiple messages.
for a more tutorial starting point
consider
http://www.htmlhelp.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=character+entities
And start with the first link in the search results.
HTH
Al
At 08:26 AM 2002-07-15, Steven McCaffrey wrote:
>Apparently there is also unicode and SGML. Is there a overview of the
different kinds of icon representation methods that does not get too detailed
about the inner workings of each character set.
Steve,
I don't
know if this is going to be readable enough or not.
What Google came up
with for me as the lead hit was
http://www.w3.org/International/O-charset.html
Read down through the Dan Connolly note about "charsets considered
harmful"
and Glenn's response to that.
Another starting point is the
Character Model document
http://www.w3.org/TR/charmod/
Please tell us if either of these works for you.
Al
PS:
For what it's worth the search query I used was
http://www.google.com/search?q=character+set+vs.+character+encoding
>Hello all:
>
> I too have been looking for a
standard set of icons. Additionally, though, since I am blind I am really
looking for a table that would be like:
>description:code - that is, two
text columns.
>(e.g. trademark symbol:™)
>I am unfamiliar
with the methods to do this so probably confuse things.
>There are
"entities" in HTML such as &sup for superscript that JFW 4.01 reads very
well (JFW says "superscript").
>Apparently there is also unicode and
SGML. Is there a overview of the different kinds of icon representation methods
that does not get too detailed about the inner workings of each character set.
>
>Thanks,
>
>
>Steve
>
>
>
>
>
>>>> "Jon Hanna" <
jon@spin.ie > 07/15/02 07:54AM >>>
>
>> I used "™" 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 ™ or ™
>
>You could also try
™ 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).