[WEB4LIB] Re: macrons in html?

[Guy Teasdale]

>Accented characters, yes, but not characters with macrons: none of the
>accented characters available in latin-1 (chiefly involving
>grave, circumflex, acute, tilde, or umlaut) includes a *macron*--except
>the stand-alone macron entity itself (¯  = ¯).

Oups! I wasn't understanding indeed. Sorry.  My "babylon translator" did
translate macron by "accent grave" in French. 

Anyway, I tried the suggestions :
http://www.bibl.ulaval.ca/info/pagepers/teasdale/macron.htm
and it works !
even without specifying the charset. The numeric entity reference seems to
be sufficient if you have recent fonts (I think it's called pan-european
support)
It works in Internet Explorer 5 and Netscape 6 (but not in Netscape 4.7,
Opera 4.1 or Amaya)



Guy.Teasdale
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