[thelist] What is this character

[rudy]

> 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