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Re: Entity Reference for Smile Symbol
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- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Entity Reference for Smile Symbol
- From: Andreas Kahari <andreas at tdb dot uu dot se>
- Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 14:44:12 +0200
- References: <"/GUID:Qd+K3+CIz1BGk+ABgCI7Pqg*/G=John/S=Prabhu/OU=informit{095}exch/O=pearsontc/PRMD=pearson/ADMD=telemail/C=us/"@MHS> <878zws2q5k.fsf@nwalsh.com>
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In <878zws2q5k.fsf@nwalsh.com> Norman Walsh writes:
> / John.Prabhu@informit.com was heard to say:
> | Could some provide me the XML & HTML entity reference for the smile
> | symbol :-) please? I'm using Docbook 4.0 DTD.
>
> If you mean a smiley face, as opposed to the mathematical symbol called
> "smile", I don't think there is one. Your best bet is to figure out the
> Unicode character that you want and use a numerical character reference.
>
> norm
>
The smiley face is 0x263A or 0x263B in Unicode.
From <URL:http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr10/basekeys.txt>:
2639 ; [*05BE.0020.0002.2639] # WHITE FROWNING FACE
263A ; [*05BF.0020.0002.263A] # WHITE SMILING FACE
263B ; [*05C0.0020.0002.263B] # BLACK SMILING FACE
For Unicode charts in PDF, see <URL:http://charts.unicode.org/>.
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