"illegal" entities for HTML from Eugene Poliakov on 1998-07-10 (www-html-editor@w3.org from July to September 1998)

From: Eugene Poliakov <esp@lanck.ru>
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 06:34:13 +0300
To: "'www-html-editor@w3.org'" <www-html-editor@w3.org>
Message-ID: <01BDABCC.C7614280@ppp4.lanck.ru>

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Can you please tell me why the following entities are considered illegal
&#145;	(left single quotation mark)
&#146;	(right single quotation mark)
&#147;	(left double quotation mark)
&#146;	(right double quotation mark)
&#150;	(en dash)
&#151;	(em dash)

All of them works excellenly with MSIE and NN, both on PC and Mac
platforms

Best regards

Eugene Poliakov

Received on Thursday, 9 July 1998 22:45:46 UTC