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Posted by Cogito on 03/30/07 12:15
On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:06:44 +0300, "Jukka K. Korpela"
<jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> wrote:
>Scripsit Cogito:
>
>> Now I need to understand it better.
>
>You need to buy my book "Unicode Explained" then. :-))
>
>Seriously, it's simple: &#xN; denotes the Unicode character with N as its
>code number, in hexadecimal. Well, the Unicode part is not simple, but for
>this purpose, you don't need to know very much about.
>
>> How did you ascertain that
>> ♕ is a queen? Is there a list somewhere?
>
>Yes, there is a list, and I actually checked (using a text editor) from a
>local copy of the plain text file in the Unicode character data base,
>http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/UnicodeData.txt
>
>But you might find the (non-authoritative, but generally reliable) database
>www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/
>more convinient: you can search by words and get detailed results, with
>images of characters.
While initially daunting, after spending some time with the links I
follow them completely, and, of course, was able to find the sought
after queen. I'm glad you knew all this stuff and I thank you for
sharing it.
It's amazing how helpful newsgroups are. On this little pet project of
mine, which is just for fun and learning, I posted two questions in
the html forum and one question in the javascript from. The help of so
many newsgroup readers was invaluable. Encouraged with my success I
am already planning my next project...
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