- From: <Jukka.Korpela@hut.fi>
- Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 09:27:28 +0200 (EET)
- To: www-validator@w3.org
On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Martin J. Duerst wrote: > >From a recent private communication: > > > > Do you want to say that the W3C validator does not complain about > > > ’? In that case, it has to be fixed! > > > > Absolutely the W3C validator does not complain about ’ -- I validate > > all my pages! > > I haven't verified this, but if this is true, it is a major bug in > our validator. Can somebody check/confirm/deny/fix? I can confirm that the validator does not report ’ as an error. This is not a bug, though. I have never really understood the issue in detail, but I believe people like Arjun Ray have. See e.g. http://www.deja.com/=dnc/[ST_rn=ps]/getdoc.xp?AN=323090408 which explains that references like ’ are _undefined_, not invalid. So technically, ’ is not a reportable markup error. Just a construct with undefined meaning. As far as I can see, a document containing ’ is not even incorrect by the prose parts of HTML specifications, but neither do they assign any meaning to it. By the way, ’ is assumably intended to produce a right single quote, not "hard hyphen". (Rhetorical question: What is a hard hyphen, anyway? Assumably a hyphen, as opposite to the rather mystical soft hyphen.) -- Yucca, http://www.hut.fi/u/jkorpela/ or http://yucca.hut.fi/yucca.html
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