RE: Off Topic -- Hard hyphen?

At 10:13 1999/12/15 -0500, Bruce Bailey wrote:
> 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 &#146/7/8; characters. 
>  Is there another charset value I could use that would make everything 
> legal and valid?

The correct, though not (yet) registered, value is windows-1252
in this case. But this does not make &#146; legal in the file,
it only makes a byte value of decimal 146 legal.


> &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.

Do you want to say that the W3C validator does not complain about
&#146;? In that case, it has to be fixed!


Regards,   Martin.


#-#-#  Martin J. Du"rst, World Wide Web Consortium
#-#-#  mailto:duerst@w3.org   http://www.w3.org

Received on Thursday, 16 December 1999 00:13:45 UTC