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Re: copyright symbol

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"Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> wrote on 04 jun 2014 in 
comp.lang.javascript:

> 2014-06-04 7:36, Andrew Poulos wrote:
> 
>> Why does changing the charset "fix" the display of the symbol?
> 
> Because the <meta charset=...> element, in the absence of overriding 
> information (HTTP headers or BOM) tells the browser how to interpret the 
> bytes in an HTML document as characters. Apparently, your code generates 
> an HTML document where "@" appears as iso-8859-1 encoded, so the browser 
> needs to be instructed about the iso-8859-1 encoding.
> 
> JavaScript (or JScript) hasn't got much to do with this. The real issues 
> are with the character encodings used in the database and in HTML 
> documents generated. They should be the same encoding, or a controlled 
> and correct code conversion should be performed.

Indeed, the question is off topic, should be in a html-NG.

Use this stringlet, works in html: 

&copy;

-- 
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)

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copyright symbol Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2014-06-04 14:36 +1000
  Re: copyright symbol "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> - 2014-06-04 08:51 +0300
    Re: copyright symbol "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2014-06-04 10:37 +0200
  Re: copyright symbol Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-06-04 11:06 +0200
    Re: copyright symbol Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-06-04 14:34 +0200
      Re: copyright symbol "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> - 2014-06-04 15:41 +0300
    Re: copyright symbol Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2014-06-05 10:28 +1000
      Re: copyright symbol "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2014-06-05 09:12 +0200
  Re: copyright symbol Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-06-04 11:21 +0000

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