Re: HTML Entities

Hi Chuck,
    Should you find any answers to this I would like to know as I am
currently doing a Website in English and Chinese and the only way I can get
it to verify is to use HTML Entities as the Chinese text in a site uses all
special characters. I would really like to know if it will display correctly
on all platforms.
www.boltonmedia.com/cn-display/

Thanks
Mark Bolton
Boltonmedia Web Design
----- Original Message -----
From: Chuck Evans <Chucke(at)captura.com>
To: HWG Techniques (E-mail) <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: 12 January 2001 21:04
Subject: HTML Entities


> About a week ago, I and others on this list had questions about the
correct
> entities to use for particular characters in HTML. I was particularly
> interested in whether ASCII-numeric entities, such as &#0153; (trademark)
> are supported in different browsers, and in particular, on Macs.
>
> The challenge comes with ASCII numbers 128 through 159 (where lots of
useful
> symbols are, such as the trademark, euro, bullet, en dash, and em dash).
The
> ASCII entities don't show up on Macs. But the HTML entities (&ndash;
&mdash;
> and &trade;) don't show up in NN 4.x or 3.x browsers. So there is a
tradeoff
> to be made if you (like me) still want to use those characters. Who do you
> piss off? Mac users or NN 4.x users?
>
> Add to this the third possibility of not using entities at all, but
> inserting the actual characters (on a PC) using the ALT+ASCII Number (hold
> down alt and type the number -- all four digits -- on the numeric keypad
> with numlock on). How do THOSE characters show up on Macs? (They all show
up
> fine in all the browsers I've tested on Windows.)
>
> And then, of course, there's the whole UniCode system (&#x???? using hex
> numbers).
>
> To answer my own questions, I put together a big table of entities at
> http://www.chucke.com/entities.html. I couldn't find one elsewhere that
> showed the UniCode entities and ALT+NUM characters side by side with the
> other entities. So I combined a good Entity table I found with some
UniCode
> data (see refs on the page).
>
> I'm going to go find a Mac in our company (we have a few for testing) and
> check out the characters. I welcome anyone else as perplexed as me to head
> there as well.
>
> Maybe we can all report back our findings?
>
> Also, if anyone on this list is an Entity Guru, or knows of a site with
more
> answers than I was able to find, please chime in.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Chuck Evans
> Captura, Inc.
> (425) 803-6455
> http://www.captura.com

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