On 08/03/2011, at 10:48 , LuKreme wrote: > Longer answer: you don't need to. Set you character encoding of the HTML > properly to UTF-8 and everything will work.
Only if you don't have “remove bogus markup” ticked. One opines that “remove bogus markup” is mislabelled, since curly quotes*, em-dash, en-dash and various other punctuation aren't ‘bogus’ markup so much as ‘unfashionable according to some people.’ So perhaps “VT100 conformant punctuation”, or “remove bogan markup” would be better, since both express the opinion behind the process :) *Curly quotes are Unicode. “Smart Quotes” is a mis-feature of Microsoft products which used proprietary extensions to ANSI/ASCII to display left/right single/double quotation marks. The “smart” part refers to the quotes being automatically curled depending on where you typed them, so " followed by a word would be corrected to '“', while " following a word would be corrected to ”. As Microsoft used proprietary encoding, “Smart Quotes” are bad. Curly quotes (i.e.: left and right quotation marks) expressed as Unicode are not “Smart Quotes” since they are Unicode, and thus should be displayed as the typographer intended. If someone can give me an example of where “curly” quotes are “bad” I'll stop using them — perhaps there is a popular screen reader used by blind people that chokes on Unicode punctuation. Alex -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "BBEdit Talk" discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at <http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en> If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit>
