On 13 Feb 2021 at 18:31:15 GMT, Martin Gregorie 
wrote:

> On Sat, 13 Feb 2021 11:09:57 -0700, Grant Taylor wrote:
>
>>  On 2/13/21 10:49 AM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>>  HTML is not there to specify odd characters  - it can but its job is to
>>>  format text.
>>
>>  All of the HTML codes for special characters tends to disagree with you.
>>
>>   
>>  ©
>>  €
>>  ™
>>  ...
>>
>>  Do a web search for "html special characters" and you will find long
>>  lists.
>>
>>  I don't know what version of HTML these were introduced.  But I do know
>>  that many of the basic ones have been there for at least 20 years (HTML
>>  4?).
>
>
> ... and are still there in HTML 5

Of course. A number of things are "deprecated" but nothing of any note has
been removed, or will be. No browser maker is going to remove  and friends.
Why would they. They had their fingers burnt before with XHTML. Just use HTML5
and forget everything else.

--
Tim

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