On 7-Nov-2010, at 16:31, Alex Satrapa wrote:

> I understand Linda's concern though - if I write a document using "®", it 
> may be because I'm writing to support a browser that doesn't recognise 
> 8859-1, and instead interprets character code 174 as something else (eg: IBM 
> PC extended ASCII or Cyrillic CP855 code "«"). The author has used "®" 
> instead of ® for a reason. Perhaps they're writing for a text-to-speech 
> converter on a particular platform which can vocalise "®" but trips over 
> "®". At my place of work, "®" is used because the ancient web services 
> software the suit-wearing Windows monkeys are using doesn't believe that 
> character codes above 127 are valid (and it only believes in the existence of 
> IE5 or IE6).

Does BBEdit still change the ® to ® if the encoding on the document is set 
to a character set that does not support ®?

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