[WSG] Back to basics!

2009-07-10 Thread designer
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 . . .)

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2009-07-10 Thread Smith, Warwick
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Re: [WSG] Back to basics!

2009-07-10 Thread Алексей Тен
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

RE: [WSG] Back to basics!

2009-07-10 Thread Foskett, Mike
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

RE: [WSG] Back to basics!

2009-07-10 Thread michael.brockington
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:

Re: [WSG] Back to basics!

2009-07-10 Thread David Dorward
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

[WSG] IE7 scrollbar problem

2009-07-10 Thread Andrew Maben
I have spent a lot of time Googling this problem with no luck. I suspect it may be one of those things that are so obvious I just can't see. So I'm turning to the list for help. The page in question is: http://spark.andrewmaben.com/index.php? page=information and the CSS is at

RE: [WSG] Back to basics!

2009-07-10 Thread Paul Novitski
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