special characters

[juldea]

According to this page, I've been using the wrong symbol for degrees. I've been using the "masculine ordinal" (?) when I should be using "degree" (?). I apologize profusely!! ;)

EDIT: Bah, apparently LJ doesn't like to show special characters. Sniffle. The point is still valid, however. You just can't see the examples (I turned them into question marks so that I don't break any friends' pages).

Comments

[greyhame.livejournal.com]

It has nothing to do with LiveJournal; special characters in one computer's character set aren't necessarily going to make any sense in another's. What you want to be using are the HTML character entity references. There's a chart of them on the W3C's site (http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/sgml/entities.html#h-24.2.1). To use one, you put the text listed after "<!ENTITY" inbetween a & and a ;. So for the degree symbol, you'd type "&deg;", and you'd get °. It's also the correct way to do accents, like &eacute; for é or &ouml; for ö.

[juldea.livejournal.com]

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Nifty! :)