[thelist] Using   v.  

Mark Groen mark at markgroen.com
Tue Jul 8 20:58:03 CDT 2003


On July 08, 2003 at 15:49, Roger Ly wrote:

> Quick question for y'all.
> 
> XML doesn't support the   entity for a space character, but it
> does support its corresponding numeric entity of  
> 
> Is   supported by all browsers (at least as much as   is)?

Pretty much, I don't have the exact specs handy but this table hasn't failed me 
yet:

http://wdvl.internet.com/Authoring/HTML/Entities/common.html

The reference, although not very practical:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/sgml/entities.html

And someone who broke it down for us:
http://roselli.org/adrian/articles/character_charts.asp

Using &#160: is SGML correct, goes back a long ways and doubtful you will run 
into problems with it.

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	Mark Groen

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