[thelist] What is this character

[Russell Griechen]

Thanks to Rudy, Morgan, Michelle and all for the education.
Getting the message out of my Outbox was an education in and of itself.
sheesh!
I ran across this used as a list colored dot. I had been pondering a colored
dot and it was entered just in the tag with no entity .  The expression was
probably in some stylesheet.
It showed up in the source as just a...seemingly innocent character that
could be entered as a keystroke.
Since I am converting from a clunky 10 frame to a lean php include css
controlled, tableless design...I was receptive to anything lean and mean.
Now if I can get the blog part and the animal genealogy database with trees
to the 5th generation going....
You can imaging how inadequate I feel.
Thanks again.

Russell Griechen...stay tuned
http://sportsmenafield.com/
----- Original Message -----
From: "rudy" <r937 at interlog.com>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 4:13 PM
Subject: Re: [thelist] What is this character


> > 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 &bull;
> (&#8226;), or &middot; (&#183;)
>
> see
> A Simple Character Entity Chart
> http://evolt.org/entities
>
>
> rudy
>
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