Re: proper coding or use for mdash

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Andrew,

The &#8212; entity rendered much better than the &mdash;
I tested on Netscape4.x, Netscape6, IE5.5, Lynx2.8, Amaya, Opera.

The screen reader I tested also returned a punctuation beep sound
for the &#8212; entity, whereas it did not respond for the &mdash;.

Thanks,
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clorisval pereira jr.  cjunior@rnp.br

On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Andrew Kirkpatrick wrote:

> try using &#8212; for the mdash character entity and &#8211 for ndash...
>
> >But I've found some agents doesn't render de &mdash;
> >entity properly, since it is not ISOlatin1.
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