Re: Web Form: Other Question: British pound sign - U+00A3

Magda Danish (Unicode) schreef:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > Date/Time:    Wed Oct  1 05:19:00 EDT 2003
> > Contact:      jim.leek <at> admin.ox.ac.uk
> > Report Type:  Other Question, Problem, or Feedback
> > (..)
> > the Pound sign displays as an error.
> > This happens when we use Netscape 7.02, and IE 6.0 (both very
> > modern browsers.
> >
> > Is there something obvious that I am missing?

Probably, yes. However, I have no idea what it could be.
This sounds like a HTML question rather than a Unicode question.
Anyway, if the Pound sign is coded as &#163; it really does not
matter if you identify the character set as ISO-8859-1 or UTF-8 or
anything else (any superset of ASCII7 that is); it displays
correctly.

> > Also which version of Unicode does HTML 4.0 support using
> > escape characters (eg. &#163)?

Unicode doesn't "do" HTML support; maybe this question was meant the
other way round? ("which version of HTML does Unicode support?")

Pim Blokland

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