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Anyone know an HTML character entity for the square root sign? Has to work
in NN4.
The square root sign can be displayed using √ or √
My copy of Navigator 4.61 accepts √ but does not understand √
(IE5 does support it).
But it is not as simple as that. It appears that you have to tell Netscape
to use Unicode (View -> Character Set -> Unicode (UTF-8), but it will not
take any notice if your page already specifies any other character set with
a META tag.
For an indexed list of HTML 4 character entities, see:
Alan Wood
Documentation Writer / Web Master
Context Limited
Electronic publishers of UK and EU legal and official documents
alan -dot- wood -at- context -dot- co -dot- uk http://www.context.co.uk/
