Re: Html character entities

On 2/6/07, Keith Brown <brownk@chem4823.usask.ca> wrote:

> I've been having an on-off battle with these little beasts for a while
> now as part of a technical web page that I'm developing. In a nutshell
> what I want to do is include 'special' characters in the page ... mostly
> Greek letters and a few math symbols. If I use "&rho;" (or the numerical
> equivalent) I can see it using Firefox on my laptop and one of my office
> machines (both Slackware 11) but not using Firefox on my other office
> machine or my home machine (both Slackware 10.2). The web explanations of
> these things are confusing and obtuse to say the least.
>
> Can anyone supply a simple explanation of these things ... a sort of
> "Character entities for dummies" type of thing? What can I do to get them
> working on the machines that currently don't display them or, more
> importantly, on the machines of those will be viewing these web pages?

On the computers where its working, under:

View -> Character Encoding

Which is selected? (maybe Unicode?)
Is it different for the ones that aren't?

In the HTML you can add a line near the top like this:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">

which will help (I use it on my Ubuntu page to help with some German
letters that have umlauts)

> Life would be so much easier if we could just look at the source code.

Its slowly being made public ;)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genome/seq/

;-)

CK
Received on Tue Feb 6 14:18:26 2007