- From: Jesus Alberto Andrade <jalberto@p53.cancer.med.umich.edu>
- Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 16:13:20 -0500
- To: Chris Lilley <Chris.Lilley@sophia.inria.fr>
- Cc: Francois Yergeau <yergeau@alis.com>, www-international@w3.org
Chris Lilley wrote: Thanks for your information. Certainly, as I mentioned to Francoise before, I am not able to write any special character in vi (more than 128 ASCII). His suggestion, it really worked, and also yours. Now, I am wondering where can I get all of numerical values that can be used in WWW with &#. Of course without testing one by one :) Regards, jand... > > 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 ¿ > > -- > Chris Lilley, W3C [ http://www.w3.org/ ] > Graphics and Fonts Guy The World Wide Web Consortium > http://www.w3.org/people/chris/ INRIA, Projet W3C > chris@w3.org 2004 Rt des Lucioles / BP 93 > +33 (0)4 93 65 79 87 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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