- From: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 21:34:10 -0400 (EDT)
- To: "Scott R. Godin" <scott.godin@comcast.net>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
On Wed, 19 May 2004, Scott R. Godin wrote: > On Wed, 19 May 2004, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: > > > * Scott R. Godin wrote: > >> I'm afraid I don't understand.. you're saying that the entity – is > >> not part of ISO-8859-1 ? > > > > The character – represents is not, please have a look at > > <http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/iso8859/isotable.html>. > > Thanks Bjoern, appreciate your responses. > > I'm mildly surprised that it is not, considering it's a bog-standard > typographical mark. You can use "–" with any character encoding. The problem was that your document used the byte 0x96 instead of "–". > I've experimented with the validator and decided on windows-1250 as per > your earlier suggestion His earlier suggestion was windows-1252, not windows-1250. > Why does this make me feel like I'm kowtowing to Microsoft (again)? :| You can avoid that feeling if you use "–" or "–" instead of the byte 0x96. > Why does this typographical mark work with the windows-specific charset, > but none of the international ones? (not even part of UTF-8) *sigh* The byte 0x96 is the representation of the en dash in windows-1250 and windows-1252. In UTF-8, the en dash is represented differently. To avoid such confusion, you could use "–" or "–", which is independent of the character encoding. > ok, using the windows-1250 charset, some font-sizes on the site change; in > particular the smallest fonts just got smaller, and the charset change was > the ONLY change made. To double-check this, I altered it back to > iso-8859-1 and tested again, and the small footer fonts are back to their > normal chosen size. Your browser is likely taking the windows-1250 charset as a hint to switch to a font that contains glyphs for most of the characters in windows-1250. > pardon me for living, but isn't THAT something that shouldn't happen? Seems reasonable to me if your default font doesn't contain glyphs for most characters in windows-1250. Otherwise, the browser would be more likely to require font changes within words, which is rather ugly. Windows-1250 is intended for Eastern European languages. Windows-1252 is intended for Western European languages. > I'm more confused now than before, but I'm not about to go back and rework > all the fontsizes so I can live with windows-1250 Your site's design should handle different fonts and font sizes. -- Liam Quinn
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