Re: special characters in comments getting 'mangled'

On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:

>
> * Fred wrote:
> >I have run into a problem while tidying up some html that has
> >comments in it.  Maybe this can turn into a requested feature??
> >
> >the comment looks something like
> ><!-- <o:tag>Coulomb's law</o:tag> -->
> >Except that the ' is a chr 146.  In other words, a 'smart apostropy' or
> >'curly apostropy'
> >(yes this is output from word if you are curious)
> >
> >This character is getting changed to something else. In my text editor it
> >indicates it is a chr 25.
>
> Yes. That's a bug. I added it to the bug tracker, see
>
>   http://tidy.sf.net/issue/621671

Is it a bug?  Surely this depends on the charset. If it is something
other than the windows charset then 146 isn't a valid character.

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