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Strictly speaking, it's a slash not a solidus. Unicode actually gets it wrong, the character / SOLIDUS is not a solidus at all, it is a (forward) slash. A soli
by jahewson 14y ago
Strictly speaking, it's a slash not a solidus.
Unicode actually gets it wrong, the character / SOLIDUS is not a solidus at all, it is a (forward) slash. A solidus has a much more shallow angle and was used as a separator in old British currency, and is still used in Mathematics. Ironically the Unicode character for an actual solidus is ⁄ FRACTION SLASH.
Further reading: http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Solidus_(punctuation).html http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Solidus...
- mnarayan01 14y agoThat makes his use of the term "solidus" a bit baffling (maybe it's referred to as such somewhere in the HTML5 specs?). I actually assumed he must mean both the characters in "/>" -- glad you mentioned it before I made a fool of myself somewhere.
- jahewson 14y agoYes, it's in the HTML spec as "solidus" because Unicode 0x47 is "SOLIDUS". That's the right thing to do in an important spec. It's just confusing in a blog post though, as most people have not heard of a solidus, and now they've learnt it wrong!
- mathias 14y agoI’ve always used the term “solidus” whenever I refer to the slash in `/>` in self-closing elements in XML/XHTML. In any other situation I’d call it a slash.