Re: Re[2]: Registered

Walter Ian Kaye> wrote:
> Larry wrote:

> >BTW &#150 seems to always provide an en dash, &#151, an em dash.
> 
> Interesting -- Netscape for Macintosh does not map en dash and em dash to
> those characters for Latin-1. You would think Netscape 1.1 for Windows and
> Macintosh would map those characters to the same ISO codes, wouldn't you?

The character code positions are unused in the range 128-160 (which are the 
equivalent of the control characters, but with bit 7 set), so any characters
in that range are technically errors; if browsers do display them, the results 
will necessarily be system dependent. See:

http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/MarkUp/html-spec/html-spec_12.html#SEC98

> >My biggest
> >problem now is to display an author's name from an Eastern European country
> >whose name has a cap Y and two dots over it. No dice in a western font.

Yes. Bizarrely, there is the lower case form of that character (255) but no 
upper case version. In fact, ISO-8859-[1 to 10] do not seem to have an 
uppercase Y umlaut.

Bear in mind that ISO-8859-1 is for Western European languages. See

 http://www.cs.tu-berlin.de/~czyborra/charsets/
 
At present, HTML is unable to accomodate other character sets, although this
will assuredly change in the future.

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