Re: Validator choking on  (TM) from Nick Kew on 2001-12-31 (www-validator@w3.org from December 2001)

From: Nick Kew <nick@webthing.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 18:22:40 +0000 (GMT)
To: <www-validator@w3.org>
cc: Bob Rosenberg <webmaster@rockmug.org>
Message-ID: <20011231181327.L5316-100000@fenris.webthing.com>

On Mon, 31 Dec 2001, Liam Quinn wrote:

> On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, Bob Rosenberg wrote:
> > Questions:
> > Would I be better off claiming to be Windows-1252 to make this
> > C1-area Codepoint Valid?
>
> No.  &#153; is undefined regardless of the character encoding.

Just to add to Liam's reply:

While the entity &#153; is indeed undefined, a byte having value 153
is valid in Windows-1252, so that is an option if your editor makes
that easy for you.  However, it's not recommended, because browser
support may be missing on non-windows platforms.

> > If I stay defined as ISO-8859-1 can I replace the &#153; with the
> > correct UniCode Codepoint for TM.
>
> Yes, you can use &#8482; for the trade mark sign.  &#ddd; always refers to
> Unicode, regardless of the character encoding.

Indeed, a better option.

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Nick Kew

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