Re: True quotes from Ka-Ping Yee on 1996-07-19 (www-html@w3.org from July 1996)

From: Ka-Ping Yee <kpyee@aw.sgi.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 12:14:54 +0900
To: David Perrell <davidp@earthlink.net>
Cc: "'www-html@w3.org'" <www-html@w3.org>
Message-Id: <31EEFDAE.1CFB@aw.sgi.com>

David Perrell wrote:
> 
> Here are shortened entities with "quo" taking precedence:
> 
> <!ENTITY quodl CDATA "&#8220;" -- quote, double left     -->
> <!ENTITY quodr CDATA "&#8221;" -- quote, double right    -->
> <!ENTITY quol CDATA "&#8216;" -- quote, left     -->
> <!ENTITY quor CDATA "&#8217;" -- quote, right    -->

I really have to agree that this is much more sensible.  Yet
it would be bad to change all the SGML entity names.

Argh!  "lsquo" et al. are silly choices for entity names.
Are they engraved in stone?

Ping

Received on Thursday, 18 July 1996 23:18:59 UTC