> > up as a "?" when it's > unknown rather than mangled as ’
has caused me truma in the past. now I use UTF-8 aiming to entify < > & and quotes aswell as £ and such dealing with large amounts of content thats been created in a wyswyg editor can be quite an issue erronus classes also some handle special chars better than others 2008/6/18 Matthew Holloway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Andrew Cunningham wrote: > > LOL, i enjoyed the wording. > > > > Considering the document character set of HTML4 is Unicode, if it > > can't be displayed in UTF-8 in a browser, then it can't be displayed > > using entitiies or NCRs either ;) > > Generally I agree, although one good thing about entities (including > NCRs of course) is that it'll typically come up as a "?" when it's > unknown rather than mangled as ’. So it'll break more gracefully. > > Also there can be other things involved other than the browser when > writing HTML, such as bad proxies. I can't remember the name of the > software but a few years ago an adblocker proxy that I installed on my > parents machine would break UTF-8 horribly... of course that's the > proxy's fault but entites would work around their bug. > > (I don't really have strong opinions either way though) > > -- > .Matthew Holloway > http://holloway.co.nz/ > > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ******************************************************************* > > ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
