Katrina wrote:
Andrew Cunningham wrote:
Christian Montoya wrote:
Ben Buchanan wrote:
> Personally I think glyphs/entities in HTML should have been tags with
> alt or title attributes.
I assume when Ben wrote "glyph" he meant "character". A glyph is a
visual representation of character that can vary between languages,
geographic regions and typographic traditions, etc.
And browsers, the character comes out very differently between IE 6 and
Firefox 1.5
That is usually a font issue.
But No. is an abbreviation for number. It's just that there is a special
character/glyph for that particular abbreviation. So do you mark it up
as an abbreviation or not, or is the abbreviation implied in the use of
that character?
not necessarily. when spoken or read aloud the symbol would not be
pronounced.
other symbols I wouldn't classify as abbreviations would include
mathematical operators, currency symbols, and numbers followed by an
ordinal indicator.
They aren't abbreviations they are symbols representing a word or concept.
Kat
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