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How to show Unicode characters in IE using HTML

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+4 A:

vartec 2009-03-21 13:02:22

This works but hex is a part of unicode, so I'll use the second method.

Mikle 2009-03-21 13:06:25

Would you care to elaborate on that?

vartec 2009-03-21 13:12:17

Your life will be a lot easier if you limit your HTML text to 7-bit ASCII. If you use an 8-bit encoding, you have to ensure that your webserver inserts the correct response parameter to identify that encoding. And chances are good that someone, somewhere, will screw up.

kdgregory 2009-03-21 13:29:18

Of course that has it's advantages and it's disadvantages. But then again, UTF-8 is the current standard and all RFCs recommend using it. We shouldn't stay in 1960's just because someone might screw up.

vartec 2009-03-21 13:42:42

@kdgregory I'm not going to do 7-bit ASCII just cause it is easy... The rest of the world exists (and I'm part of it) and I'm not going to ignore it.

Mikle 2009-03-21 16:14:38

Answer 2

+6 A:

Entities need a semi-colon:

&#x00A9;

Firefox is being incorrectly over-helpful in this case.

kdgregory 2009-03-21 13:03:36

Well, it seems like a stupid requirement, since it's not a common phrase ("Hello my friend !"), why does it HAVE to look for ;? Seems like unnecessary complexity.

Mikle 2009-03-21 13:10:05

It's part of the html recommendation, and the html recommendation prefers completeness (leading to simpler parsers) over assumptions. The irony here is that you assumed IE was at fault, when it was in fact IE that was strictly adhering to the "standard". ;-)

Rahul 2009-03-21 13:25:45

I agree that this is somewhat ironic... I read a lot about browser compatibilities, and how IE sucks and the whole strict VS loose parsing issues, and lo and behold - less than 3 hours into my first web project (I did mostly desktop programming) I get bit by it...

Mikle 2009-03-21 16:12:19

Answer 3

+2 A:

This page has a list of HTML codes for common symbols.

Jimmy J 2009-03-21 13:08:13

@Jimmy you can insert literal HTML as code.

vartec 2009-03-21 13:19:06

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