Hi Kat,
On 11 Jan 2006 at 10:29, Kat wrote: > > I am aware that — is an incorrect character entity for the em dash, > that the correct entity is —. #151 is definitivly wrong or very, very old. http://www.sql-und-xml.de/unicode-database/latin-1-supplement.html lists it as 'END OF GUARDED AREA'. All dashes have their own category, 'Punctuation Dash'. They begin with the standard '-', then some 8210 ... and other. See http://www.sql-und-xml.de/unicode-database/pd.html for the complete category. > If you have used these named references in the past, so long as you > have(update to) the correct character encoding, > do these automatically refer to the correct entities? > The Html version 4.0 is old, so most browsers may show the — correct as #8212. Best Regards Juergen Auer -------------------------------------------- Jürgen Auer, www.sql-und-xml.de Web-Datenbanken zum Mieten Friedenstr. 37, 10 249 Berlin Tel.: (030) 420 20 060 Fax: (030) 420 19 819 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************