- From: Arnoud <galactus@htmlhelp.com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 20:35:10 +0100
- To: www-html@www10.w3.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In article <199612301453.AA159957636@lhrsys20.lhr-sys.DHL.COM>, Andre Mas <amas@lhr-sys.DHL.COM> wrote: > What should I do if I want these curly quotes. Am > I supposed to use plain quotes and leave it up to the browser to do > the necessary work? You can use the " entity - a browser can pick 'curly quotes' to display those (properly nested even), assuming it is advanced enough. > Also, is there a tag that indicates what character set is being used > in the document? This is done in the Content-Type header: Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 would suggest a ISO Latin 1 character set (the default, by the way). Some browsers also accept this in a META tag: <META HTTP-EQUIV=content-type CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> Galactus - -- E-mail: galactus@htmlhelp.com .................... PGP Key: 512/63B0E665 Maintainer of WDG's HTML reference: <http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/> -----END PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
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