[mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On
Behalf Of Adam Smith
Sent: 12 July 2009 23:41
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: RE: [WSG] Back to basics!
Mike,
It's messages like this one which make it such a joy to be part of WSG.
Impeccable information and the perfect answer with just one URL!
On 7/10
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Regards
Mike
From:li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org]
On Behalf Of Adam Smith
Sent: 12 July 2009 23:41
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: RE: [WSG] Back to basics!
Mike,
It's messages like this one which make it such a joy to be part of WSG
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I just use a modified keyboard layout that allows me to directly type
necessary punctuation directly form the keyboard. no messing around with
entities or NCRs.
Andrew
designer wrote:
Hi all,
Could anyone tell me where there is information regarding character
code 'usage' that is simple.
Message-
From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On
Behalf Of designer
Sent: 10 July 2009 10:08
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: [WSG] Back to basics!
Hi all,
Could anyone tell me where there is information regarding character code
'usage' that is simple
[snip] Yes! Using UTF-8 in your web pages means NOT having to use HTML
entities for text such as #241; or ecirc;. The only HTML entities you
need to use in your character data are amp; for '' ampersand, lt; fo
r
'' less-than, and gt; for '' greater-than so that those characters
don't
Hi all,
I like http://leftlogic.com/lounge/articles/entity-lookup/ for any entities
that I can't remember, and if you're on a Mac there's a widget, and a plugin
for Firefox
cheers
Luke
2009/7/10 designer desig...@gwelanmor-internet.co.uk
Hi all,
Could anyone tell me where there is
Hi Paul,
- Original Message -
From: Paul Novitski p...@juniperwebcraft.com
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Sent: Friday, July 10, 2009 6:23 PM
Subject: RE: [WSG] Back to basics!
[snip] Yes! Using UTF-8 in your web pages means NOT having to use HTML
entities for text such as #241
At 7/11/2009 04:44 AM, designer wrote:
So you are really saying that typing
I have got �100 to spare
is OK, instead of:
#8220;I have got pound;100 to spare#8221;
Absolutely. As an example, look at the HTML source for this page:
http://laurietobyedison.com/WOJwords_HanashiroIkuko.asp
So you are really saying that typing
I have got £100 to spare
is OK, instead of:
#8220;I have got pound;100 to spare#8221;
(just as an example, of course).
Really?
Yes, really. HTML as SGML application has so called document character
set, which is UCS
(Universal Character Set,ISO10646).
On Jul 11, 2009, at 7:37 AM, Paul Novitski wrote:
At 7/11/2009 04:44 AM, designer wrote:
So you are really saying that typing
I have got £100 to spare
is OK, instead of:
#8220;I have got pound;100 to spare#8221;
Absolutely.
I have recently started building WordPress sites, found WP
Hi all,
Could anyone tell me where there is information regarding character code
'usage' that is simple. I always use UTF-8 and, e.g., if I want to put a
left quote in my text I can use quot; or #8220; Which is recommended?
Any help, links etc most welcome. (I have googled, but . . .)
quot; and #8220; are not the same. quot; is #34;
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 13:08,
designerdesig...@gwelanmor-internet.co.uk wrote:
Hi all,
Could anyone tell me where there is information regarding character code
'usage' that is simple. I always use UTF-8 and, e.g., if I want to put a
left
http://websemantics.co.uk/resources/common_symbols/
Mike
-Original Message-
From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On
Behalf Of designer
Sent: 10 July 2009 10:08
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: [WSG] Back to basics!
Hi all,
Could anyone tell me
-reference.html
But there are plenty of others, though not many are as comprehensive as
that one.
Regards,
Mike
-Original Message-
From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org]
On Behalf Of designer
Sent: 10 July 2009 10:08
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: [WSG] Back
designer wrote:
Hi all,
Could anyone tell me where there is information regarding character
code 'usage' that is simple. I always use UTF-8 and, e.g., if I want
to put a left quote in my text I can use quot; or #8220; Which is
recommended?
Neither.
quot; will give you a straight quote
Could anyone tell me where there is information regarding character code
'usage' that is simple. I always use UTF-8 and, e.g., if I want to put
a left quote in my text I can use quot; or #8220; Which is
recommended?
...
One of the main points of using Unicode is that you don't need to use
The voices are telling me that [EMAIL PROTECTED] said on 5/18/2004 8:43 PM:
So, yes, apos; is a better solution than the one I posted.
Except that [censored] MSIE doesn't display the apostrophe. It gets
it fine (as slapping ?xml version='1.0'? onto the top and renaming
it to foo.xml
The voices are telling me that James Ellis said on 5/18/2004 6:06 AM:
I have a feeling apos; won't work in IE for Windows. I've used #039;
everywhere with success.
Right you are. You can tell how often I fire MSIE up on this box.
Slap an XML header on it, rename it foo.xml, and MSIE renders it
Of Rev. Bob 'Bob' Crispen
Sent: 18 May 2004 23:13
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [WSG] back to basics
The voices are telling me that James Ellis said on 5/18/2004 6:06 AM:
I have a feeling apos; won't work in IE for Windows. I've used #039;
everywhere with success.
Right you are. You can tell
Excuse me for possibly subtracting from the sum of human knowledge,
but I don't recall reading in the original problem statement that it
had to be a *semantic* single quote, which means the entity apos;
would do just fine.
My apologies,
I presumed that Justin had already checked the existing
Hi all,
I feel incredibly inept for even asking this question, but I can't find
a solution. I have an application that widely uses single quotes for
tag attributes, which is perfectly valid XHTML, eg:
input type='text' name='surname' value='French' /
However, I can't find a way of escaping a
Justin French wrote:
My first reaction (after years of PHP scripting) was to escape it with
a slash:
input type='text' name='surname' value='O\'Riley' / -- doesn't work.
Adding to this - try htmlspecialchars() in PHP with ENT_QUOTES set -
this will special character all the XML reserved
I can't find a way of escaping a single quote inside the attribute,
The simple answer seems to be use double quotes for all attributes, so
that at least the nested double quotes can be replaced with a quot;
entity, but I can't believe this is my only option -- am I missing
something??
The voices are telling me that [EMAIL PROTECTED] said on 5/17/2004 8:26 PM:
I can't find a way of escaping a single quote inside the attribute,
...
b ) declare an entity in an inline DTD declaration at the top of the
document to signify a single quote.
eg:
?xml version=1.0?
!DOCTYPE html [
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