Re: FLASH: Smart quotes

[John Dowdell]

One other addition to this thread, which I'm sorry I didn't include in my

original post....


If you're trying to specify a character beyond the 128 defined by ASCII

codes, and you wish to avoid that different interpretations that different

computers can give to the same number, then your HTML can use "character

entity" references to unambiguously define the character, rather than its

number.


For instance, you're probably familiar with " " for non-breaking

spaces, or "&" for ampersand. (In case your emailer rendered that, the

text is "&-n-b-s-p-;" and such.)


For smart quotes, the character entity references are "“" and

"”" for left and right curved quotes, respectively. I'm using this

guide now:

http://www.bbsinc.com/iso8859.html


The advantage of character entities is that, even if a given browser

doesn't offer curved quotes, it at least knows what the document is trying

to display, and can replace appropriate content.


Side-topic, I know, sorry... just comes up a lot on the web groups, so I

hope it may help save someone here some time later on....


jd








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