At 10:48 AM -0700 9/18/06, Ara wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Is it possible to style a special character such as ® to show as
>uppercase next to regular text? Using "text-transform: uppercase;"
>doesn't work.
>Thanks
>AG

AG:

And what would be the uppercase for that? The Registered Trademark 
symbol is static.

My understanding is that "special" characters (same as all 
characters) are single values (HEX or DEC) representations of glyphs 
-- exactly like code-points in the Unicode database.

There are no upper/lower case values for any single character.

However, with that said, in ASCII, an "a" is HEX 061 and an "A" is 
HEX 041. Changing case simply means changing the value of the 
character with another -- in other words, character replacement.

This works great in ASCII because that's the way our language was 
designed, but not so in other languages -- not all languages have 
upper/lower case equivalents.

So, using : text-transform: uppercase; on other than ASCII characters 
is at least problematic and may not even be possible, but I'll defer 
that assertion to someone who knows better than I.

tedd
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