- From: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 18:37:20 -0400
- To: wahlen@ph-cip.Uni-Koeln.DE (Holger Wahlen), www-html@w3.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 06:09 PM 28/07/97 +0200, Holger Wahlen wrote: >As a reaction to my thoughts about an entity for apostrophes, >Walter Ian Kaye <walter@natural-innovations.com> wrote: > >| Is there a problem you are trying to solve? If so, what is it? > >Let's take a short example: > He said: 'It's 5' long.' >It contains "'" (') four times, but in each case this is >used to represent a different character: left and right >single quotation mark, apostrophe, and symbol for "feet". For the quotation marks, you'd theoretically want to use HTML 4.0's Q element, and let the browser choose the quotation marks based on the user's locale or the language of the document (or perhaps based on a style rule, though this isn't possible in CSS1): He said: <Q>It's 5′ long.</Q> I say "theoretically" because browsers don't generally support Q yet. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBM90fHw/JhtXygIx1AQFJ/AMAxRK5kh1V4xkORwgEIfl7Rt6D+GviaKDJ dN+cy0IuGkVto8LgK8BXxFXc6SsPftl5YiqVOfhdD6c3yv9ek3iF6k2hpE64f1/8 0hoQJRqmoaz4x+3vmo6CcdZRhgqLnumu =Z4qi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Liam Quinn =============== http://www.htmlhelp.com/%7Eliam/ =============== Web Design Group Enhanced Designs, Web Site Development http://www.htmlhelp.com/ http://enhanced-designs.com/ ====== PGP Key at http://www.htmlhelp.com/%7Eliam/pgp.html =====
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