Re: Symbol

"CETA Gies Stefan (external)" wrote:
> 
> Is there a HTML symbol representing the % ANSI symbol, like &percent;
> similar to ‰ ?

Hello,

I do not see this defined in the list of HTML 4
character entity references [1].

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/sgml/entities.html

> I am using a script language that accepts HTML symbols, but in this language
> the % symbol starts a comment. So to specify a % within a string I would
> need a replacement for it.

You should be able to use the numerical character
reference % (decimal) or % (hex).

 - Ian

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Received on Sunday, 27 August 2000 22:25:40 UTC