- From: Fred Bone <Fred.Bone@dial.pipex.com>
- Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 15:17:41 +0100
- To: "Dirk Kruisheer" <d.kruisheer@xs4all.nl>
- Cc: html-tidy@w3.org
On 6 Oct 2003 at 14:26, Dirk Kruisheer wrote: > > [reposted from comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html and > comp.infosystems.www.authoring.tools] > > Hello all, > > As I'm new to this list specifically for the question below, please advise > me if I'm in the wrong place here. > > I'm trying to convert some files from html into xhtml with HTML Tidy, GUI > version. It does a great job, except that it uncurls all the quotation > marks, single and double. There seems to be no difference between the > various options for character sets (I use UTF-8). I tried with “ and > “ etc. in the source but also these are turned into strait quotes. > What other values or possibilities are there? > > How can I keep my smart quotes? Specify --ascii-chars no From the Quick Reference <http://tidy.sourceforge.net/docs/quickref.html> ascii-chars Type: Boolean Default: yes Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0 char-encoding Can be used to modify behavior of -c (--clean yes) option. Defaults to "yes" when using -c. Set to "no" to prevent converting &emdash;, ”, and other named character entities to their ascii equivalents.
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