With regard to special characters--I'm in the process of updating the Wiki pages related to ASCII, extended characters, and *ML character entity references, so in a few days you'll have all the information you never wanted to know about character sets. The current Wiki ASCII codes page will be entirely replaced--the characters on that page don't even correspond to the codes that label them--perhaps Wiki software munged them at some point.
At any rate, after these pages are done, I'll make some recommendations about how Wiki should handle special characters, and you'll have the information you need to evaluate them or offer aternative suggestions. I should have that done next week.
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Lee Crocker wrote:
The current Wiki ASCII codes page will be entirely replaced--the characters on that page don't even correspond to the codes that label them--perhaps Wiki software munged them at some point.
I'm assuming you know what you're doing, but it's perhaps worth pointing out that when (per the instructions on http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki.cgi?Wiki_ASCII_codes_page ) I hold down alt key and then, using the number pad, type the number of the character in question, I do indeed get the character in question. I'm fairly sure it works the same way for many other people, too.
I'm probably not understanding what you're saying. I just hope you won't change this information, because it does appear to be accurate and useful. You could supplement it with more information, of course.
Larry
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