- From: Bruce Bailey <bbailey@clark.net>
- Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 10:13:09 -0500
- To: "'Martin J. Duerst'" <duerst@w3.org>, "McDonald, Ira" <imcdonald@sharplabs.com>
- Cc: "'Web Accessibility Initiative'" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Let me ask this again, My pages now contain a line like <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> This is a lie, since I insist of using the forbidden ’/7/8; characters. Is there another charset value I could use that would make everything legal and valid? &8217; &8220/1; don't work with the 3x browsers. I have a LOT more Win 3x users I am writing for and NO unix users that I know of. I have no plans of changing my practices until either (A) Navigator starts supporting &l/rd/squo; or (B) the W3C validator starts invalidating about my code. Thanks, Bruce Bailey On Wednesday, December 15, 1999 12:18 AM, Martin J. Duerst [SMTP:duerst@w3.org] wrote: > Of course the non-breaking hyphen is the correct thing to use. > For quotes, never use “ and ”, this is not correct > HTML at all. The numbers in &#...; constructs refer to Unicode, > and Unicode does not have any characters at these positions. > Please see http://www.w3.org/TR/html40/sgml/entities.html#h-24.4.1 > and use any of: > > <!ENTITY lsquo CDATA "‘" -- left single quotation mark, > U+2018 ISOnum --> > <!ENTITY rsquo CDATA "’" -- right single quotation mark, > U+2019 ISOnum --> > <!ENTITY sbquo CDATA "‚" -- single low-9 quotation mark, U+201A NEW --> > <!ENTITY ldquo CDATA "“" -- left double quotation mark, > U+201C ISOnum --> > <!ENTITY rdquo CDATA "”" -- right double quotation mark, > U+201D ISOnum -->
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