Chris Williams wrote:
> 1) These characters are font dependent. Unless you are specifically > calling out fonts that you use, you risk using glyphs that will not be > found on your target machine. My understanding (and I may be wrong) is that if a modern browser is called on to display a glyph G from a font F (or from a font alternative sequence F1, F2, F3, ...) and the glyph does not exist in F, F1, F2 or F3, the browser will attempt to substitute another font (which /does/ contain the glyph) for the offending glyph, if such a font can be found on the system on which the browser is running. So given that U+2019 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK (the preferred character to use for apostrophe ) is a standard part of Unicode, there is no reason not to use it where possible; only very old machines without Unicode support are likely to fail to display the glyph correctly. Other similar and supported characters include : > U+0022 QUOTATION MARK " neutral (vertical), used as opening or > closing quotation mark; preferred characters in English for paired quotation > marks are U+201C and U+201D > U+0027 APOSTROPHE ' neutral (vertical) glyph having mixed > usage; preferred character for apostrophe is U+2019; preferred characters in > English for paired quotation marks are U+2018 and U+2019 > U+0060 GRAVE ACCENT ` > U+00B4 ACUTE ACCENT ´ > U+2018 LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK ‘ > U+2019 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK ’ this is the preferred > character to use for apostrophe > U+201C LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK “ > U+201D RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK ” Philip Taylor ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
