- From: Russell Steven Shawn O'Connor <roconnor@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 12:37:50 -0400 (EDT)
- To: www-math@w3.org
On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, William F. Hammond wrote:
> The use of numeric codes like this, whether hexadecimal or decimal,
> became unacceptable practice about the time that the use of punch card
> readers became unacceptable -- long before SGML was a gleam.
>
> Of course, it does work. And realistically, with much of what is out
> there, it may be the only thing that works. That is, if you wish to
> have unicode chars in your web, you need to "punt".
>
> But I would not go there.
>
> The name tables (cf. the W3C reference) are there for a reason.
Not every Unicode character have named entities. Many mathematical
operators have no named entity. Assuming you don't have a Unicode capable
editor, numeric entities are the only way to access these characters.
> (It's really not an AND operator. Rather "&...;" is SGML and XML
> notation for an "entity".)
Sorry I guess I mean AND-operator character.
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Russell O'Connor roconnor@uwaterloo.ca
<http://www.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca/~roconnor/>
``And truth irreversibly destroys the meaning of its own message''
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