From: Bob H. <ha...@st...> - 2004-10-31 13:39:45
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I have posted a simple page that you can use to check some of the most common special characters. You can find it at: http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr/symtest.htm Ah, for the day when we are past all this! Bob Hanson Rzepa, Henry wrote: > I am posting this because I see "FAQs" on this topic widely, and I dont know > many of the answers myself! > > Its the issue of greek characters, much used in chemistry! Over the last 10 years, > it seems many mechanisms have been used to display them in browsers. Many > of these mechanisms had short lifetimes! > > The current recommended way, if using the standard (7-bit) ASCII text character set, > is to define an entity. thus β or Β (its case sensitive). Older deprecated > methods ( <font face="symbol">b</font> ), along with CSS > equivalents, by and large no longer work. > > The "future way" is to use utf encoding. Here is where confusion can start. > > Thus http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/greek.html > > contains (according to my unicode compliant text editor, bbedit 8) a utf-8 > encoded beta. One has to tell the browser that the default encoding is indeed > Unicode utf-8, but in my hands at least, this does not result in display of a beta. > > Is there anyone out there who can explain it all to us? -- Robert M. Hanson, ha...@st..., 507-646-3107 Professor of Chemistry, St. Olaf College 1520 St. Olaf Ave., Northfield, MN 55057 mailto:ha...@st... http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr |