Hi All,
How much do I need to bother about quotation marks etc being represented as
their 'proper' equivalent, eg ' as #39, and so on?
I am working on an extract from a writer's work and as I've cut and pasted a
lot of it, I've ended up with the horrific prospect of painstakingly going
through
On Tue, 17 May 2005 13:00:28 +0100, designer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How much do I need to bother about quotation marks etc being represented
as their 'proper' equivalent, eg ' as #39, and so on?
Not much.
I've ended up with the horrific prospect of painstakingly going
through and changing
http://photomatt.net/tools/texturize makes it really easy. He's also
responsible for the WordPress blogging software (I know, off topic...)
which has that function embedded. Quotation marks and apostrophes, if
copied out of Word, can give you all kinds of messy encoding errors...
best to either
Hi
Quotes, ampersands, , and single quotes are reserved characters (entities).
Basically you should only use quotes within tags like a
href=blah.phpfoo/a. If you want to avoid problems with badly
formed markup (XML for instance) then always use the entity version if
the character e.g
a
On Tue, 17 May 2005 13:21:23 +0100, James Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
a href=foo.phpquot;barquot;/a
An XML parser would barf on a href=foo.phpbar/a as the quote
char describes an attribute. This is badly formed markup.
No, it is not. Quotes and apostrophes can be used in XML text.
You can
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- Original Message -
From: Kay Smoljak [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 1:35 PM
Subject: Re: [WSG] apostrophes, and the like.
If you use Dreamweaver and paste your content into design view, all
entities are automatically converted
I have written my little typograph in JavaScript. It is not tested
enough, but it can do all this things plus add nbsp after short words
(like a, an, the, on, of, etc).
http://siter.com.au/dmitry/typo/
Hope it will help someone
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