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 non-html email) which is then being attempted to be displayed in a font (in my case Consolas) that doesn't represent these glyphs properly.
My larger point was, tread carefully here. Test a lot. Unexpected results (as Jeff sees in his simple email to this list) are likely. On 10/9/15, 9:48 AM, "Philip Taylor" <p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk> wrote: > > >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/
