HTML decimal character rendering: Difference between revisions

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Not all [[web browser]]s or [[email client]]s used by receivers of HTML documents, or [[text editor]]s used by authors of HTML documents, will be able to '''render all HTML characters'''. Most modern [[web browsers]] are able to display many more characters than the latest versions of [[Microsoft]] [[Internet Explorer]]. This is due to different "font linking" capabilities that allow [[glyph]]s to be used from fonts according to what characters are needed and supported by the fonts on the system.

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The characters 0009 (tab), 0010 (linefeed), and 0013 (carriage return) are allowed in HTML documents, but, along with 0032 (space) are all considered "[[whitespace (computer science)|whitespace]]"[http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/text.html#h-9.1]. The "form feed" control character, which would be at 0012, is not allowed in HTML documents, but is also mentioned as being one of the "white space" characters &mdash; perhaps an oversight in the specifications. In HTML, most consecutive occurrences of white space characters, except in a <code>&lt;pre&gt;</code> block, are interpreted as comprising a single "word separator" for rendering purposes. A word separator is typically rendered a single en-width space in European languages, but not in others.

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