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Posted by Alan J. Flavell on 03/08/06 12:07
On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, Harlan Messinger wrote:
> Don't be too quick to praise Firefox and Opera.
Hmmm?
> I noticed that ∗ and
> ⁎ weren't displaying as the same character.
[...]
> and found that Firefox and Opera were assigning &lowast to ∗,
> "asterisk operator", rather than to ⁎, "low asterisk".
Then they are implementing HTML4.01 as defined:
<!ENTITY lowast CDATA "∗" -- asterisk operator, U+2217 ISOtech
-->
I hadn't noticed that before. If this is a blunder, then it appears
to have been there in the ISOtech entity set for quite some years, and
presumably inherited by HTML, as a search for the terms e.g
ISOtech ISO 8879:1986//ENTITIES lowast
will reveal.
I don't use these named character entities, and had not noticed the
discrepancy before.
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