Re: charset enquiry

• From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
• Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 14:02:47 -0000
• To: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <014c01c196be$c0d19d80$0513989e@bicycle2>

From: "Chris Croome" <chris@webarchitects.co.uk>

> For example browsers such as Netscape 4 on Linux replaces MS 'smart
> quotes' with question marks.

This is often as a result of totally illegal HTML.  Even if you
declare the character set in the headers (or pseudo headers),
&#146; is still totally illegal, as entities are always Unicode
(ISO 8859/1 for older HTMLs), but are inserted by some
versions of Front Page.

Received on Sunday, 6 January 2002 09:30:37 UTC