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html_code_clinic thread: CP1252 character set


Message #1 by "T Berry" <tberry@v...> on Mon, 9 Dec 2002 16:57:26
Message from T Berry (12/9/2002 04:57 PM)
>I have HTML pages with characters special to Microsoft apps (e.g. Word).
>An example is in Word, type-in 3 periods "...". They will change to one
>character of three periods. They display as a "?" on my HTML pages. I was
>told that Microsoft characters are defined in the character set "CP1252".
>Can I display these on an HTML page? If so, how do I do this? I've tried:

Tom,

I suggest having a read of this excellent article on special characters
http://www.alistapart.com/stories/emen/

And you can supplement that with this handy character reference chart
http://roselli.org/adrian/articles/character_charts.asp

regards.
-marc

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