Subject: Re: HTML was Re: [lojban] Attitudinals

From: Pierre Abbat <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 19:42:42 -0400

On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
>On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 07:08:22PM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote:
>> As to Demoronizer, HTML Tidy is better. Instead of replacing &#151; (the
>> Windows-only em dash) with a hyphen, it puts the proper character or entity
>> reference, and similarly with other characters.
>
>Which will probably then break my text-only browser, yes?

Here's what Lynx displays for dashes, quotation marks, and daggers:

8211 ndash - en dash
8212 mdash - em dash
8216 lsquo ` left single quotation mark
8217 rsquo ' right single quotation mark
8218 sbquo ' single low-9 quotation mark
8220 ldquo " left double quotation mark
8221 rdquo " right double quotation mark
8222 bdquo " double low-9 quotation mark
8224 dagger /- dagger
8225 Dagger /= double dagger

That is, &#8212;, &mdash;, and (on Windows only) &#151; are em dashes, and Lynx
shows the em dash as a hyphen. What browser do you use?

phma