Re: What all does html support?

wmperry@spry.com
Sat, 18 Mar 1995 11:48:12 +0500


Rupesh Kapoor writes:
> Hi,
> It's amazing to find more syntax being supported by these browsers
> each day. For instance, when I converted a MSWord document into text only
> form today, was shocked to see netscape 1.0 correctly interpreting octal
> codes like \225, \227 etc as bullets, regd & copyright symbols.
>
> Can anyone supply me a pointer to the exact set of such symbols
> supported by these browsers? Of particular interest are Mosaic & netscape
> 1.{0,1}

This is generally a font issue - was this in windows netscape? Try it
with netscape/X, and it might/might not work. I hardcoded in a few
conversions for emacs-w3 based on the more popular ones people use from
windows fonts (quotes, cpoyright, registered, etc).

-Bill P.