Re: [WSG] entities bug in camino

2004-07-05 Thread James Ellis
Marc Camino, like Firefox, is a beta release so it's going to have bugs in it. You should lodge these bugs at http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/, rather than here and you'll get noticed by the Camino development team. HTH James Marc Greenstock wrote: Hi all, I hope this isn't too OT but I have

Re: [WSG] entities bug in camino

2004-07-05 Thread Marc Greenstock
- Original Message - From: James Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 10:23 AM Subject: Re: [WSG] entities bug in camino Marc Camino, like Firefox, is a beta release so it's going to have bugs in it. You should lodge these bugs at http

Re: [WSG] entities

2004-01-12 Thread Universal Head
Thanks very much for that - now I get it! Peter rsquo; is an alternate (easier to remember) code than the official unicode definition of #8217. All possible characters have a specific number assigned to them in Unicode. The lettered helpers came out after unicode was out to ease the pain of

Re: [WSG] entities

2004-01-12 Thread James Ellis
I added some links a while back about kangxi radicals etc etc to the WSG site http://webstandardsgroup.org/resources/#cat18 Interestingly you can do a quick script to test compatibility in browsers for the various unicode characters.. $i=0; while print #.$i.;; i++; For most of the chrs, IE

Re: [WSG] entities

2004-01-11 Thread Cameron Adams
I believe that for quotes it's handy to use the entities because you define proper opening and closing quotes, instead of using the uni-directional default as defined on the keyboard. It's probably safest to use entities in all your text, as then they have no way of conflicting with the actual

Re: [WSG] entities

2004-01-11 Thread Justin French
On Monday, January 12, 2004, at 02:20 PM, Universal Head wrote: A quick HTML Entities question. For a closed single quote, for example, is it better to use rsquo; or #8217; - and what is the distinction? I can't answer your specific case, but I *can* paraphrase it with an example of my

Re: [WSG] entities

2004-01-11 Thread Universal Head
What's the technical difference between the two options? Are the numeric entities the original form and the typographical ones more recent? The reason this came up is that I've been using the numeric ones, and then I started using skEdit which is an excellent coding tool, but uses the

Re: [WSG] entities

2004-01-11 Thread Justin French
On Monday, January 12, 2004, at 04:12 PM, Universal Head wrote: What's the technical difference between the two options? Are the numeric entities the original form and the typographical ones more recent? The reason this came up is that I've been using the numeric ones, and then I started

Re: [WSG] entities

2004-01-11 Thread Ryan Christie
rsquo; is an alternate (easier to remember) code than the official unicode definition of #8217. All possible characters have a specific number assigned to them in Unicode. The lettered helpers came out after unicode was out to ease the pain of having to remember a set of digits that had