- From: Joe Kaczmarek <joe@getq.com>
- Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 10:34:21 -0400
- To: Walter Ian Kaye <walter@natural-innovations.com>
- CC: www-html@w3.org
Walter Ian Kaye wrote: > > At 04:05p -0400 05/02/00, Joe Kaczmarek didst inscribe upon an > electronic papyrus: > >Is "sm" an entity as "tm" (™) is? > >If not, will it be? > > Two things: > > 1. ™ is not an entity. It's not even valid HTML. (It's MS-Windows.) > The HTML entity for TM is "™" ™ may not be valid, but I've created for myself an HTML page which displays � through Ā so that I can actually see which character is displayed. I use both a Macintosh and a PC to test sites for that audience, and whether or not ™ is valid, it works on both whereas ™ does not work (and displays as "™") on the Mac. And making sure that people in my audience see "TM" and not "™" is more important to me. > > 2. You can do SM using Unicode. See this page on my web site: > <http://www.natural-innovations.com/boo/doc-charset.html> ℠ does not display "SM" on either the Macintosh or the PC. If displaying these Unicode characters takes some extra declaration such as <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=EUC-JP"> (http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/charset.html#spec-char-encoding), then what do I need to declare for Unicode characters so that ℠ will display "SM". (NOTE: I can and have spent hours and days following links in complete circles at W3C anytime I try to find an answer to a simple question of "what should I use"). Joe.
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