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Re: dash
> And this is not a question, when I view the – with Netscape on Solaris,
> I can not see the correct dash but a question mark if I set character set as
> UTF-8.
Netscape needs the decimal version – (a deficiency in netscape)
> Both – and – just work fine for character set ISO-8859-1
> And I'm just wondering how many people really use UTF-8 for their browser.....
> :-)
that's a bug in whatever system you are using. in HTML 4 and in XML the
&#...; notation _always_ refers to the unicode number. The encoding of
the document is immaterial: that's the whole point, you can use &# to
access characters that are _not_ in the character encoding of the
document.
David
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