Re: ¿

On Mar 19,  8:16pm, Francois Yergeau wrote:

> If you insist.  The entity name is ¿, introduced in RFC 2070

Actually it was first introduced into HTML by RFC 1866 (although not
normatively) which in turn copied it from the ISOnum entity set.

> and possibly not supported by all browsers.

True, though they have had many web-years of warning and have no excuse

>  The real ¿ character is safer, IMHO.

This is certainly true, for those who are able to type it directly.
For those who are not, ¿ is also universally supported if less
memorable than ¿


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Received on Thursday, 20 March 1997 07:52:25 UTC