[thelist] What is this character
rudy
r937 at interlog.com
Sun Jan 12 16:14:00 CST 2003
> http://www.sportsmenafield.com/strange_character.html
that's a hex 95 character
you can enter it into a text file using notepad and a pc keyboard by
pressing and holding down the alt key while entering the numbers 0 1 4 9
and then releasing the alt key
you can code for it in an html document using the numeric entity &0149;
would you want to do this? not on the world wide web, no
"ISO-8859-1 does not assign displayable characters to code points
in the range (decimal)128-159. Some platforms (e.g MS Windows)
that are otherwise ISO-8859-1 conformant, might use these codes
to represent additional character encodings, but they cannot and
should not be relied on for communicating information on the World
Wide Web - they could display as anything, or nothing, on other
platforms or browsers"
http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/iso8859/iso8859-pointers.html
is that what you were asking?
some authors, sensitive to this situation yet still wishing to use some sort
of character representation of a dot or bullet, will opt to use •
(•), or · (·)
see
A Simple Character Entity Chart
http://evolt.org/entities
rudy
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