Re: german squiggly B

Murray Maloney (murray@sco.com)
Fri, 24 Mar 1995 14:14:05 +0500


I think that you are refering to the German sz ligature.
entity reference is ß
character code is decimal 223
numeric character reference is ß
>
> Sorry, I can't remember what it's called, it's pronounced like a double S but
> I cannot find it in the ISO latin entities for HTML.
>
> Anyone know if this is part of the HTML spec or likely to be?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Derek
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