On 11/01/06, Lachlan Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
liorean wrote:
Character references refer to Unicode code points independent of the
document encoding and character set. At least for HTML4 and XML, if
not for HTML3.2.
As far as character references in HTML are concerned, they have
liorean wrote:
On 11/01/06, Lachlan Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As far as character references in HTML are concerned, they have always
referred to the Unicode code points since HTML 2.0.
Ah. I just saw
BASESET ISO 646:1983//CHARSET
International Reference
Hi Kat,
On 11 Jan 2006 at 10:29, Kat wrote:
I am aware that #151; is an incorrect character entity for the em dash,
that the correct entity is #8212;.
#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
On 11/01/06, Kat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is it safe to use the named references that formerly refered to the control
characters?
Multi level answer here:
- text/html: Should be perfectly safe.
- application/xhtml+xml: Should be, but isn't, safe except for the
five named entities of XML. Use
liorean wrote:
On 11/01/06, Kat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is it safe to use the named references that formerly refered to the control
characters?
Yes, it's safe to use the named entity references in HTML4, but it's
easier to just use UTF-8 and type the actual characters instead.
mdash; (or
