Posted by TheWebJunkie on 09/04/05 00:41

To my comment:
>>An aside to Jukka: there *is* an ascii character
>>for "registered trademark".

Alan=A0J.=A0Flavell responded:
>The ASCII standard says otherwise. You may not
>care to honour this, but you're not going to get quality
> help if you reject even simple corrections on terminology."

I am not looking for *any* kind of help -- quality or otherwise. I am
not the original poster to this thread. John is. He had posted:
>...We use ascii characters to display various symbols
>such as the "Registered Trademark"

I agree that he used the wrong term. However, Jukka=A0K.=A0Korpela's
response to him:
> "There is no such Ascii character."

is absolutely no help at all.

Alan commented:
>Mostly, this terminology "extended ASCII" seems
>to be used by people who are referring to an old
>MS-DOS code, more accurately known as CP-437 ...

I was referring to the upper half of ISO 8859-1. The original poster
mentioned the "Registered Trademark" symbol, which is a capital R within
a circle. I mentioned that it is represented by hexadecimal value "ae"
(decimal value 174), to which Alan commented:
> "......but you seem to have a different one in mind."

Well, which symbol do *you* think John was referring to?

> "You /could/ express yourself more clearly if you
>wanted to. But if you want to continue to spread
>confusion, there's no way anyone can stop you..."

What the hell are you talking about? That was a brief "aside" to a
no-help responder. If you want to criticize me, chew me out for my
stupid mistake of not realizing that my entity codes would resolve to
their symbols in html-enabled newsreaders.

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