- From: John Delacour <JD@EREMITA.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 20:39:22 +0100
- To: Serg Korzhinski <g16776@mail.sitek.ru>, www-html@w3.org
On [dmy] 3/8/99 at 10:18 pm -0400 Serg Korzhinski wrote:
> Look for section 12.4 in CSS2 Specification:
>
> /* Specify pairs of quotes for two levels in two languages */
> Q:lang(en) { quotes: '"' '"' "'" "'" }
> Q:lang(no) { quotes: "Ç" "È" "<" ">" }
> /* Insert quotes before and after Q element content */
> Q:before { content: open-quote }
> Q:after { content: close-quote }
That's a specification?? I'm reading your message (sent in koi-8-r) on a Macintosh and can see all sorts of problems with such a specification.
The acute accent, for one thing is missing from the latest iso-8859-15, having been replaced at long last with, I think, oe ligature. Since iso-8859-15 is likely to be used quite a lot before everyone really switches to unicode - still some way off - it would not be a good idea to use the character as such.
"<" and ">" should always in html4 be represented as < and & gt; and we have good entities « & raquo; for the guillemet quotes.
JD
Received on Wednesday, 4 August 1999 15:44:14 UTC