Hi Keith!

> EXACTLY what I was looking for.  Thanks for the link. I will bookmark it.
> Are these listed somewhere on the internet on an official standards sites,
> like the W3C?  Yours is the most complete listing I've been able to see
> since I've been looking.  The W3C site has a list of character entity sets
> (http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html3/latin1.html), but it doesn't really appear
> to be a complete list of everything that is available, unless those are the
> only ones actually accepted.

Keith, the *is* no 'like the W3C' :) W3C is 'the www.' Check whois 
for w3c.org. TBL owns it, he invented it, he and W3C are the driving 
force behind it.

That said, there is no 'standard' by strict definition. W3C makes 
'recommendations.' They are in effect the legislative branch. The 
browser authors are the executive branch; they try to make products 
that conform to the recommendations. The HTML authors and web users 
are the executive branch; by accolade or rejection we decide what's 
good and what's not. Then, W3C modifies and adjusts their 
recommendations to more align with authors' and users' needs.

The numbered character entities are always safest. I see pages every 
day that use named entities that some geek somewhere thought was a 
good idea but not every browser recognises and W3C has maybe not even 
heard of yet. Remember when COLOR="GREEN" used to make all kinds od 
sites totally illegible? :)

Mr. Analogy. [tm]
jb

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