True quotes from David Perrell on 1996-07-18 (www-html@w3.org from July 1996)

From: David Perrell <davidp@earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 04:32:27 -0700
To: "'www-html@w3.org'" <www-html@w3.org>
Message-ID: <01BB7462.2BA6F680@pool039.maxa.agoura.ca.us.dynip.earthlink.net>

How do I legitimately get true typographic opening and closing quotes, both single and double?

I say legitimately because I can get them on the Windows platform with the non-ISO codes of &#145;, &#146;, &#147;, and #148;. But I suspect these codes will not produce the desired characters on other platforms.

Theoretically, I can get them using the ISO numbers for single quotes and doubling them. But both Navigator and Explorer display the ASCII keyboard characters for &#039; (') and &#096; ( `), which are not the same as the typographic characters.

Have there been no requests for named entities for quoteleft, quoteright, quotedblleft and quotedblright? With font face and size specification becoming standard, these characters are sorely needed.

David Perrell

Received on Thursday, 18 July 1996 07:33:13 UTC