Re: Html character entities

On Tuesday 06 February 2007 20:00, Keith Brown 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 "ρ" (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?
>
>
> Dr. Keith Brown
> Department of Chemistry/
> Saskatchewan Structural Sciences Center
> University of Saskatchewan
> Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Hi Keith,
        My experience in this is limited to inserting copyright insertions into some
of the work I put on my website.
        In this case, I simply wrote the document in HTML with Open Office, inserted
the character, saved as text and hand rolled it into HTML.
        Webmonkey should be a big help.
Brian Borley
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Received on Tue Feb 6 15:37:51 2007