SC - Lost characters in HTML
Mark.S Harris
rsve60 at email.sps.mot.com
Thu Jan 13 14:03:05 PST 2000
Greetings,
This email was just forwarded to me. Since we have discussed this
before,
I thought this might be of interest here.
In addition, and this may be discussed on the site mentioned, I would
prefer folks not use the single-character fraction symbols for 1/2 and
1/4 etc. I get a lot of recipes from this list that show up with other
characters substituted for these. While I can always ask the original
author to resend these, it is a bother for both and sometimes I don't
notice it and they the message gets into the Florilegium uncorrected.
Thanks.
Stefan li Rous
(no sig from work) stefan at texas.net
> Subject: Lost characters in HTML
> Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 11:29:11 -0500
> From: Ginny Barnett <barnett at chesapeake.tokheim.com>
> To: Merry Rose <atlantia at atlantia.sca.org>
>
> Greetings to all good gentles in Atlantia,
>
> Several days ago, I was looking for international currency symbols and
> stumbled across the following site: "Character Set Restrictions Imposed by
> Common Internet Media."
> http://www.jhall.demon.co.uk/currency/charset.html
>
> It explains the requirements for special characters (not just currency)
> that need to be displayed and printed in email, HTML, and news groups. Why
> am I bringing this up?
>
> Well, I've just printed a 49-page document that included hundreds of
> Scadian names. The author very carefully inserted all the correct Norse,
> Saxon, German, etc. characters so she was sure every person's name was
> spelled correctly. I know the author entered these special characters,
> because I looked at the code in WordPad, and they're there.
>
> Unfortunately, all that careful work was wasted. HTML demands special
> treatment for special characters; if those codes are not entered, names
> like Berengare and Esston are displayed and printed as B<ng< and
> Esst[]n. (I've omitted the accents in Berengare and Esston, 'cause they
> don't come out in email, either, without using special characters that some
> email software doesn't know how to interpret.)
>
> No doubt, many people use HTML publishers that (one would assume) interpret
> special characters correctly. Some publishers may not, however; so some
> additional editing directly in HTML may become necessary when we use these
> characters.
>
> Should we even use these characters? Maybe not. Some older browsers may
> not be capable of displaying these characters correctly. In addition, for
> some very unusual characters, the browser must be configured to use a
> Unicode-type font, and not all people have a Unicode font installed on
> their PC's. I'm not sure, but it may also be necessary for multilanguage
> support to be turned on, and how many people in the United States think of
> that?
>
> In summary, we either need to leave out the special characters entirely and
> just use the ones on our regular keyboard, or we need to use the HTML
> codes. If you have Scadian friends who create web pages, could you let
> them know about the above site? It may save them a lot of wasted energy.
>
> Bethoc ingen Alpin
> (Ginny Barnett) (757) 857-3127
> 5804 Andrea Drive
> Norfolk, VA 23518 barnett at chesapeake.tokheim.com
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