[thelist] What happened to my &#153 ?

[aardvark]

> From: "Adam Slesinger" <badlanners at hotmail.com>
[...]
> Today, just for a sanity check, I went to my code reference to make
> sure that the Trademark symbol was &#153; and to my surprise, it was
> off the list!  So, I checked some other online references and they
> were gone there as well.

because for years they all had the wrong entities, and they only 
started getting it right within the last year or so... in fact, most 
books from 2002 and older have them wrong, too...

> Did I miss something?  Did W3 change the standards on me?  I didn't
> get the memo. :P  Should I be moving away from programming with my
> beloved &#153's and &#174's and &#169's and moving to something else?

nope, they didn't change 'em, people just started validating and 
seeing they had the wrong ones... oh, and the validator didn't 
validate them until a couple years ago, too...

anyway, you can use this handy chart, which has the character 
and numeric entities, shows how each renders, and has a 
description for quick in-page searches:

http://evolt.org/entities



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