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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 ⁎ weren't displaying as the same character. I tried this:
>
> <p>|∗|∗|∗|∗|</p>
> <p>|⁎|⁎|⁎|⁎|</p>
> <p>|∗|∗|∗|∗|</p>
>
> and found that Firefox and Opera were assigning &lowast to ∗,
> "asterisk operator", rather than to ⁎, "low asterisk". Or so it
> seems from their respective appearances.
Here is an extract from the W3C Recommendation:
<!ENTITY lowast CDATA "∗" -- 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.
--
Alan Wood
http://www.alanwood.net (Unicode, special characters, pesticide names)
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