- From: Walter Ian Kaye <boo@best.com>
- Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 08:33:09 -0700
- To: www-html@w3.org
At 4:32a -0700 07/18/96, David Perrell wrote:
>How do I legitimately get true typographic opening and closing quotes,
>both single and double?
>
>I say legitimately because I can get them on the Windows platform with the
>non-ISO codes of ‘, ’, “, and #148;. But I suspect these
>codes will not produce the desired characters on other platforms.
Don't EVER use codes like that -- they are totally invalid/illegal/evil.
Such codes do not, and will not ever, exist in HTML. Period.
>Theoretically, I can get them using the ISO numbers for single quotes and
>doubling them. But both Navigator and Explorer display the ASCII keyboard
>characters for ' (') and ` ( `), which are not the same as the
>typographic characters.
Right -- they look quite horribly ugly, too. <puke style=shudder>
>Have there been no requests for named entities for quoteleft, quoteright,
>quotedblleft and quotedblright? With font face and size specification
>becoming standard, these characters are sorely needed.
Eventually you'll be able to use the Unicode equivalents (which you can find
at <http://www.natural-innovations.com/boo/doc-charset.html>), but in the
meantime, you could do what I do on my "AppleScript Snippets" page -- use
one of Netscape's supported charsets. There are docs on Netscape's site, and
you can view source on my page ( /boo/as-snippets.html ) to see the META tag.
BTW, MSIE does not support this META tag, so you'd have to require Netscape
for accurate rendering.
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Walter Ian Kaye <boo@best.com> Programmer - Excel, AppleScript,
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Received on Thursday, 18 July 1996 11:52:28 UTC