[voyager] Re: HTML Symbols

[Matt Sealey]

Hello Ian

On 10-Jul-01, you wrote:

>> But stuff like alpha, beta, and the bullet mark are all in the latin1
>> codepage, which is what the Amiga uses, so as long as you're using a decent
>> font (like a Microsoft TTF font set up as per my tutorial, or one of the very
>> decent
> 
> I can find beta (�) as Alt-S, but I couldn't find alpha.
> 
>> Do you happen to know what the numeric value of these three entities
>> are?
> 
> To quote the file which pointed me at these entities in the first
> place...
> 
> <!-- Greek -->
> <!ENTITY Alpha CDATA "&#913;" -- greek capital letter alpha, u+0391 -->
> <!ENTITY Beta CDATA "&#914;" -- greek capital letter beta, u+0392 --> <!ENTITY
> Gamma CDATA "&#915;" -- greek capital letter gamma, u+0393 ISOgrk3 --> [...]
> 
> <!ENTITY alpha CDATA "&#945;" -- greek small letter alpha, u+03B1 ISOgrk3 -->
> <!ENTITY beta CDATA "&#946;" -- greek small letter beta, u+03B2 ISOgrk3 -->
> <!ENTITY gamma CDATA "&#947;" -- greek small letter gamma, u+03B3 ISOgrk3 -->
> [...]
> 
> <!-- General Punctuation --> <!ENTITY bull CDATA "&#8226;" -- bullet, =black
> small circle, u+2022 ISOpub --> <!-- bullet is NOT the same as bullet
> operator, u+2219 --> <!ENTITY hellip CDATA "&#8230;" -- horizontal ellipsis,
> =three dot leader, u+2026 ISOpub --> <!ENTITY prime CDATA "&#8242;" -- prime,
> =minutes, =feet, u+2032 ISOtech --> <!ENTITY Prime CDATA "&#8243;" -- double
> prime, =seconds, =inches, u+2033 ISOtech -->

Right, so this shows just how difficult it is to support these: since their
unicode codepoints are outside of the 0-255 range of Amiga fonts - beta
can quite obviously be supported. &bull; could be kludged to be the same
as &bullet; even if it isn't the same by definition. If we can find alpha, in a
predictable place, we can support that.. 

Thanks
-- 
Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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