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Doctor Q said:
Look, rufus, there's a man with a magic box! By golly, that right there must be the specialest thing I ever did see. Yessiree, go get ma, pa, and little Suzy Anne, we're lookin' at a miracle here!
The Unicode code for the Apple symbol is 63743 (the dollar and cents number in my post - get it? 
), so if you type  in your post, it'll come out as a .
This will work if you then click the Submit Reply button. However, if you click the Preview Post button, the  will turn into an symbol in the Preview display, and you must then change the back into  before you click Submit Reply, or it will come out as a question mark.
I had to do this a few times myself while previewing this post to make sure it came out right!
You can find the codes for this and other characters, such as ⌘ or ⌥, in The HTML Document Character Set.
), so if you type  in your post, it'll come out as a .This will work if you then click the Submit Reply button. However, if you click the Preview Post button, the  will turn into an symbol in the Preview display, and you must then change the back into  before you click Submit Reply, or it will come out as a question mark.
I had to do this a few times myself while previewing this post to make sure it came out right!
You can find the codes for this and other characters, such as ⌘ or ⌥, in The HTML Document Character Set.
If you mean ⌥, it's the symbol for the option key. Why? I've always wondered. It doesn't look like an option to me. On the other hand, what does an option look like? Maybe the symbol [] could have been used, since square brackets often mean optional in extended BNF and other syntax notations. But it's no use second guessing. Apple chose ⌥ and that's what we get.neoelectronaut said:
If you are using Safari, look in the menus and you'll see the ⌥ symbol used (along with ⌘ for menu choices like Bookmarks->Show All Bookmarks. At least for ⌘ the symbol is on the keytop so you won't have trouble remembering which key it refers to!
My post above didn't come out right, so I'll try again.
The Unicode code for the Apple symbol is 63743, so if you type this sequence:
& # 6 3 7 4 3 ;
it should come out as a .
The Unicode code for the Apple symbol is 63743, so if you type this sequence:
& # 6 3 7 4 3 ;
it should come out as a .
I'm still not following this... I just can't get it...
Can this be used on all sites? And it's only viewable by people with Macs?
Daniel
Can this be used on all sites? And it's only viewable by people with Macs?
Daniel
Any web page on any web site can use HTML containing the 8-character sequence & # 6 3 7 4 3 ; (but without the intervening spaces) to specify the Apple logo symbol. Whether it displays properly in a particular user's web browser does not depend on the platform, but it does depend on (1) whether that web browser understands Unicode (most do these days) and (2) whether that system has a font available that contains that particular glyph (which means the shape of the Apple logo symbol).BurtonCCC said:
BurtonCCC said:
OMG, you don't have a Mac? You know that without a Mac, you can only see like 15% of what gets posted, right? We usually write in Mac-only fonts; on a Windows machine it doesn't appear at all.
There are thousands of threads you can't even see to click on, man! Quick! Run out and buy up an iMac for godssakes!
Thanks! I've been looking for a complete set for a while now...Doctor Q said:
PS! Why is this in the Community forum and not Web Design?
☮, man...
pseudobrit said:
LMFAO! Thats great, glad I can see all of those 'special threads', they ALWAYS have THE BEST content and insider news
Thanks for the know-how Dr. Q, fun stuff
Wanted to try another: þ
Doctor Q said:
I'm assuming this works not only for 8-char but also for 5/6 char as well correct?
☯