Le Mardi 28 D?cembre 2004 20:01, Lauri Watts a ?crit?: > On Tuesday 28 December 2004 00:39, Kurt V. Hindenburg wrote: > > Hello, > > Why does <quote> show up as a dashed-outline of a box character? I > > tried changing the Encoding, but that didn't seem to matter. > > Kurt > > It's font and locale dependent. If you're running in English, and with a > font that actually provides it, it should be a normal quote character. Not > all languages use " " (or 66/99 style typographical quotes) in text, so > there's a possibility you're supposed to be seeing something like the > formal German ,, baseline quote or a French guillemet, and your font > doesn't have it.
The <quote> tag is usually rendered to different HTML characters according to the language (at least it should be so...). There are different text quotes for German, French and English : - English : like " but more round, both up - German : like " but more round, one up and one down - French : like << and >>, at same level as other characters Programming code should use straight quotes. Once rendered to HTML, it becomes a font problem, yes. > For within command line, it should in fact be the literal " character, > since that is what users will be typing. > > Other than suggesting trying some other fonts, I'm not sure what to suggest > - Can you see the quotes on for instance this page: > http://docs.kde.org/en/3.3/kdebase/kfind/kfind.html#name-tab? Yes I can (Konqueror). -- Small dictionnary to understand what's going on CNN Reality coalition occupation forces terrorists resistants democracy nominated government
