Re: How To Write Non-Unicode Symbol?

Dave Pawson <[email protected]> Fri, 26 May 2023 15:12:44 +0100
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&#x1234; is simplest, assumes your document is utf-8

HTH

On Fri, 26 May 2023 at 15:01, Michael Urban <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> What Unicode construct has the best semantics for representing an
> oddball non-Unicode character?  If I am writing a novel in which
> there is a currency symbol, the Quatloo, represented by a glyph
> from a custom font (say, a Q with three lines through it), how should
> I write it?  <phrase role="quatloo">Q</phrase>?
>
> It's inconsequential, since I can do whatever I please--this document
> will not be exported to anyone, after all--but I'd like to get it 'right'
> in some way.  So, it's just a matter of my curiosity here.
>
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