Date: 24 Aug 2000 12:42:46 +0200 From: Rasmus Kaj <kaj@raditex.se> To: chris@calldei.com Cc: Rasmus Kaj <kaj@raditex.se> Subject: Re: <trademark> tag in the docs Message-ID: <84u2cbndnd.fsf@frodo.sickla.raditex.se> In-Reply-To: Chris Costello's message of "Wed, 23 Aug 2000 16:29:05 -0500" References: <20000820131444.C254@parish> <84u2ccdlfn.fsf@frodo.sickla.raditex.se> <20000823190427.B254@parish> <20000823142901.B25008@bsdi.com> <20000823162905.H60058@holly.calldei.com>
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>>>>> "CC" =3D=3D Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com> writes: CC> On Wednesday, August 23, 2000, Deborah Greenberg Lidl wrote: >> To fix the DSSSL stylesheets, modify html/dbinline.dsl to use the c= ode: >> 245c245 >> < (make entity-ref name: "trade"))))) >> --- >> > (make entity-ref name: "#8482"))))) CC> This is bad. Using langauge-specific numbers really goes CC> against the trend we've been making toward _not_ depending on any CC> one character set. Huh? First, ™ is the trade mark sign in the ISO 10646 international character set, as specified in HTML 4, =A75.3.1 [1], so it's not dependant on the document character set.=20 Second, if you want to mark trade marks in another way in another language, that should be done by overriding the rule in a language specific stylesheet, similar to what is done with generated words, such as the "Next", "Prev", etc links. --- [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/charset.html#h-5.3.1 --=20 Rasmus Kaj ------------------------ rasmus@kaj.se - http://Raditex.se/~= kaj/ \ Science is what happens when preconception meets verifica= tion \----------------------------------------------------- http://Raditex= .se/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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