Re: [css-d] CSS solution for a "curly" apostrophe

2015-10-11 Thread Philip Taylor
Chris Williams wrote: > Philip's second reply in this thread has the same markers. I hadn't even > entered into the conversation yet. "Philip's second reply in this thread" is presumably my message of 09/10/2015 17:36, which read : > Gates, Jeff wrote: > >> Instead of a ³tick² mark for an ap

Re: [css-d] CSS solution for a "curly" apostrophe

2015-10-11 Thread Chris Williams
Philip's second reply in this thread has the same markers. I hadn't even entered into the conversation yet. - From: Philip Taylor ... Content-type: text/plain; charset="EUC-KR" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable - On 10/11/15, 5:19 PM, "css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.

[css-d] Multiple background image dilemma

2015-10-11 Thread Crest Christopher
I have an issue whereas I'm using multiple background images, turning off background-cover fixes the title issue with one of the background images, but when the orientation of the screen changes to lets say, landscape, the second background is not covered ? _

Re: [css-d] CSS solution for a "curly" apostrophe

2015-10-11 Thread MiB
12 okt 2015 kl. 02:01 skrev Chris Williams : > Yeah, well whatever. I'm using Outlook on the Mac, which is not set to > Korean, as Philip seems to believe. When Philip quoted your letter, he didn’t think anything else beyond the fact that your message had among it message headers the character

Re: [css-d] CSS solution for a "curly" apostrophe

2015-10-11 Thread Chris Williams
Yeah, well whatever. I'm using Outlook on the Mac, which is not set to Korean, as Philip seems to believe. From: Tom Livingston Date: Sunday, October 11, 2015 at 4:37 PM To: Christopher Williams Cc: CSS-D Subject: Re: [css-d] CSS solution for a "curly" apostrophe On Sunday, October 11

Re: [css-d] CSS solution for a "curly" apostrophe

2015-10-11 Thread Tom Livingston
On Sunday, October 11, 2015, Chris Williams wrote: > This. > > Philip already explained this... "Jeff sent in ISO-8859-1, as I mentioned in my preceding message; therefore you (and I) saw characters from the ISO-8859-1 character set, which does not contain the very characters that Jeff was tryi

Re: [css-d] CSS solution for a "curly" apostrophe

2015-10-11 Thread Chris Williams
This. From: Tom Livingston Date: Sunday, October 11, 2015 at 12:37 PM To: "p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk" Cc: Christopher Williams , CSS-D Subject: Re: [css-d] CSS solution for a "curly" apostrophe I only saw superscripted numbers as well, and I have my doubts that ios9.x gmail client can't display

Re: [css-d] CSS solution for a "curly" apostrophe

2015-10-11 Thread Tom Livingston
On Sunday, October 11, 2015, Philip Taylor wrote: > > > Tom Livingston wrote: > > > For what it's worth, I usually use entities and have yet to hear of any > > issues. > > > > This: ’ not: ' > > > > Though, I am no Unicode scholar. > > Certain entities come predefined in HTML and XHMTL, and entit

Re: [css-d] CSS solution for a "curly" apostrophe

2015-10-11 Thread Philip Taylor
Tom Livingston wrote: > For what it's worth, I usually use entities and have yet to hear of any > issues. > > This: ’ not: ' > > Though, I am no Unicode scholar. Certain entities come predefined in HTML and XHMTL, and entities can be declared for XML documents, but in plain text messages su

Re: [css-d] CSS solution for a "curly" apostrophe

2015-10-11 Thread Tom Livingston
On Sunday, October 11, 2015, Philip Taylor wrote: > > > Tom Livingston wrote: > > > > > I only saw superscripted numbers as well, and I have my doubts that > > > ios9.x gmail client can't display unicode... > > > > Saw only superscripted numbers in whose/which message, Tom ? > > P

Re: [css-d] CSS solution for a "curly" apostrophe

2015-10-11 Thread Philip Taylor
Tom Livingston wrote: > > I only saw superscripted numbers as well, and I have my doubts that > > ios9.x gmail client can't display unicode... > > Saw only superscripted numbers in whose/which message, Tom ? > Philip Taylor > > Jeff gates first reply. Jeff sent in ISO-8859-1

Re: [css-d] CSS solution for a "curly" apostrophe

2015-10-11 Thread Tom Livingston
On Sunday, October 11, 2015, Philip Taylor wrote: > > > Tom Livingston wrote: > > > I only saw superscripted numbers as well, and I have my doubts that > > ios9.x gmail client can't display unicode... > > Saw only superscripted numbers in whose/which message, Tom ? > Philip Taylor > Jeff gates

Re: [css-d] CSS solution for a "curly" apostrophe

2015-10-11 Thread Philip Taylor
Tom Livingston wrote: > I only saw superscripted numbers as well, and I have my doubts that > ios9.x gmail client can't display unicode... Saw only superscripted numbers in whose/which message, Tom ? Philip Taylor __ css-discus

Re: [css-d] CSS solution for a "curly" apostrophe

2015-10-11 Thread Tom Livingston
On Sunday, October 11, 2015, Philip Taylor wrote: > > > Chris Williams wrote: > > > [Can you] explain then, your email of yesterday where you explain that > you said > > Explain what, Chris ? I sent a plain text message in UTF-8 which read : > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Cont

Re: [css-d] CSS solution for a "curly" apostrophe

2015-10-11 Thread Philip Taylor
Chris Williams wrote: > [Can you] explain then, your email of yesterday where you explain that you > said Explain what, Chris ? I sent a plain text message in UTF-8 which read : > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > > > > Gates, Jeff wrote: > >> In

Re: [css-d] CSS solution for a "curly" apostrophe

2015-10-11 Thread Chris Williams
Explain then, your email of yesterday where you explain that you said --- Hmmm, what I see are superscript 3, 2 & 1 in that order, followed by a prime. What I now think you meant is : Instead of a “tick” mark for an apostrophe, I¹d like a mark like you see here: ’ I know of no way of accomplish

Re: [css-d] CSS solution for a "curly" apostrophe

2015-10-11 Thread Philip Taylor
Chris Williams wrote: > My larger point was, tread carefully here. Test a lot. Unexpected > results (as Jeff sees in his simple email to this list) are likely. If one has to tread carefully for characters as commonplace and straightforward as curly quotation marks, what hope has one if one wa

Re: [css-d] CSS solution for a "curly" apostrophe

2015-10-11 Thread Chris Williams
Perhaps. But browsers are not the only place where your text is interpreted. Witness the fact that in my mail program all I'm seeing for his "preferred" characters are (as you also note) superscript characters. This is presumably because his email is being converted to ASCII characters (it's a no