On Wed, 24 Jan 2001 09:40:56 +0000, John Delacour wrote:
>| And, for those characters that don't exist in ISO-Latin-1: you can still
>| use numerical entities, with Unicode character number, and it'll work.
>| For example, the bullet is 0x2022, or 8226 in decimal. Well: both
>| "•" and "•" work, even on a PC. Tested with Netscape 4.76
>| and MSIE5.0.
>
>This is just what I did in the Applescript/Perl droplet I next posted,
>and this is the mapping (hex) I use myself. I do find the use of hex
>preferable since the hexadecimal renderings give a pretty good guide to
>the range of the character, 03xx and 1Fxx for example being the two
>Greek ranges, the second of which is sadly not yet implemented either
>in WindowsNT or MacOS 8.
Just a quick late note. I just deiscovered that on Netscape 4.7 on Mac,
the hexadecimal numerical entities don't work. The decimal do, though.
If you're worried about compatibility with older (?) browsers, this is
something worth to take note of.
--
Bart.
