Re: proper coding or use for mdash from clorisval pereira jr. on 2002-03-12 (w3c-wai-ig@w3.org from January to March 2002)

From: clorisval pereira jr. <cjunior@nc-rj.rnp.br>
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 18:19:37 -0300 (EST)
To: Andrew Kirkpatrick <andrew_kirkpatrick@wgbh.org>
cc: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.40.0203121805170.60413-100000@kira.nc-rj.rnp.br>

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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> Andrew Kirkpatrick, Technical Project Coordinator
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