Adding Copyright Characters to Metafiles
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The characters for copyright and trademark registration symbols ( © or ® ) may not display correctly if the metafile is not encoded using the UTF-8 encoding scheme. In this case, to display either of these symbols properly for all users, you can use the ASCII equivalents (c) and (r) inside the COPYRIGHT element, as shown in the following code.
<COPYRIGHT>Copyright (c) 1998, Microsoft Corporation</COPYRIGHT>
If the metafile is encoded using UTF-8, copyright and trademark symbols will display correctly.
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