Posted by Alan Wood on 03/08/06 11:45

Harlan Messinger wrote:
>
> Don't be too quick to praise Firefox and Opera. I noticed that ∗
> and &#8270 weren't displaying as the same character. I tried this:
>
> <p>|&lowast;|&lowast;|&lowast;|&lowast;|</p>
> <p>|&#8270;|&#8270;|&#8270;|&#8270;|</p>
> <p>|&#8727;|&#8727;|&#8727;|&#8727;|</p>
>
> and found that Firefox and Opera were assigning &lowast to &#8727;,
> "asterisk operator", rather than to &#8270;, "low asterisk". Or so it
> seems from their respective appearances.

Here is an extract from the W3C Recommendation:

<!ENTITY lowast CDATA "&#8727;" -- asterisk operator, U+2217 ISOtech
-->

<http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/sgml/entities.html>

This suggests that Firefox and Opera are complying with the
recommendations.

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Alan Wood
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