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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 j
ndardsgroup.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.
Impeccable information and the perfect answer with ju
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
> Hi all,
>
> Could anyone tell me where there is information regarding character code
> '
[snip]> Yes! Using UTF-8 in your web pages means NOT having to use HTML
> entities for text such as ñ or ê. The only HTML entities you
> need to use in your character data are & for '&' ampersand, < fo
r
> '<' less-than, and > for '>' greater-than so that those characters
> don't confuse the HT
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 7/10/2009 at 7:39 pm, "Foskett, Mike" wrote:
http://websemantics.co.uk/resources/common_symbols/
Mike
-Original Message-
From: li..
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. I
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:
“I have got £100 to spare”
Absolutely.
I have recently started building WordPress sites, found WP auto
converts
> So you are really saying that typing
> "I have got £100 to spare"
> is OK, instead of:
> “I have got £100 to spare”
> (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). You can th
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:
“I have got £100 to spare”
Absolutely. As an example, look at the HTML source for this page:
http://laurietobyedison.com/WOJwords_HanashiroIkuko.asp
Scroll down past th
Hi Paul,
- Original Message -
From: "Paul Novitski"
To:
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 ñ or ê. The only HTML entities you
need t
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 " or “ Which is
recommended?
...
One of the main points of using Unicode is that you don't need to use
entities, o
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 " or “ Which is
recommended?
Neither.
" will give you a straight quote (which you don't w
One of the main points of using Unicode is that you don't need to use
entities, other than for a handful of chars used by HTML.
I always keep a good reference handy, so that I can copy and paste
straight into my files, the one I use is:
http://www.calcresult.com/reference/text/unicode-reference.h
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 w
" and “ are not the same. " is "
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 13:08,
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 " or “ Which is reco
The voices are telling me that [EMAIL PROTECTED] said on 5/18/2004 8:43 PM:
So, yes, ' is a better solution than the one I posted.
Except that [censored] MSIE doesn't display the apostrophe. It gets
it fine (as slapping onto the top and renaming
it to "foo.xml" demonstrates), but when it comes
> 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 '
> would do just fine.
My apologies,
I presumed that Justin had already checked the existing
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 ' won't work in IE for Windows. I've used '
> everywhere with succes
The voices are telling me that James Ellis said on 5/18/2004 6:06 AM:
I have a feeling ' won't work in IE for Windows. I've used '
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
like a c
Rev
I have a feeling ' won't work in IE for Windows. I've used '
everywhere with success.
HTH
James
Rev. Bob 'Bob' Crispen wrote:
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 ent
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:
]>
Excuse me for possibly subtracting fr
>> 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 "
>> entity, but I can't believe this is my only option -- am I missing
>> something
Justin French wrote:
My first reaction (after years of PHP scripting) was to escape it with
a slash:
-- doesn't work.
Adding to this - try htmlspecialchars() in PHP with ENT_QUOTES set -
this will special character all the XML reserved entities for you. For
storage in a data store this is more
try '
Cheers
James
Justin French wrote:
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:
However, I can't find a way of escaping a single quot
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