I don't get this, ™ is the unicode character 2122, not ASCII. I agree
it could be generated on a MS-DOS pretty much any byte sequence could
be, but I doubt even DOS 6.22 had unicode support, so you would have to
translate it to a code page reprisentation and load the correct fonts.
You're right. It's U+2122. Nonetheless, it's also extended ASCII 153, and
many DOS programs easily used that to display a ™. I guess that was the
"default" code page.
MS-DOS never had Unicode support. Neither did any Windows version up to
3.1, NT 3.5, and 95. NT 4 introduced it into the Microsoft sphere in 1996.
In 5-6 years--from 1996 to 2001--Windows surpassed Plan 9 in Unicode
handling, in all practical aspects.
W3C HTML 4.x (and most of previous versions, I guess) and XHTML 1.1 also
support it as ™, so it's pretty "standard." You can validate any
otherwise valid XHTML document containing it against
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd,
and get a pass.
--On Wednesday, August 20, 2008 9:10 AM +0100 Steve Simon
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Steve Simon's trademark character, I presume, was generated by
[Alt]+0153--you call [Alt] an "Option" key, right?
nope, Alt,T,M
Well below 255, it's
just extended/8-bit ASCII. Not right-to-left, not even out of ISO 8859.
You could generate that character even on MS-DOS.
I don't get this, ™ is the unicode character 2122, not ASCII. I agree
it could be generated on a MS-DOS pretty much any byte sequence could
be, but I doubt even DOS 6.22 had unicode support, so you would have to
translate it to a code page reprisentation and load the correct fonts.
-Steve
