On 9/7/11 5:23 PM, Stanimir Stamenkov wrote:
> Wed, 07 Sep 2011 17:09:53 -0700, /David E. Ross/:
> 
>> At
>> <http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/named-character-references.html>,
>> there is a&smile; at Unicode U+02323.  (This is a draft specification
>> that is still being revised.  The latest revision was just today.)  At
>> <http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2300.pdf>, I see that Unicode
>> U+02323 is a curve resembling a parenthesis on its side with the concave
>> side up.  This might be considered a smile, but it does not have the
>> face circle around it.
> 
> Try U+263A (white smiling face):
> 
> http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2600.pdf
> 
> This is "Miscellaneous Symbols" on:
> 
> http://www.unicode.org/charts/
> 

I didn't deny there is a Unicode symbol for this.  I merely pointed out
that there does not seem to be what used to be called an HTML entity
reference -- now (HTML 5) called a named character reference -- for the
symbol in the W3C specifications.  After all, Gecko is supposed to be
compliant with the HTML specification.

If Ray_Net want to use numeric Unicode points for special symbols, he
can.  But merely typing a keyboard letter and then expecting the symbol
does not work, even when that keystroke is the symbol in some fonts.

-- 

David E. Ross
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