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Subject: [going OT] Re: Netscape uses ??? instead of '' From: Thomas Ribbrock <argathin@gmx.net> Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 10:07:34 +0100 On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 09:09:18AM -0400, chadws@mailhost.networksplus.net wrote: [...] > Also you can avoid the problem altogether by using the HTML entities > for these characters as this will put the problem of displaying the > pages on the browser not the wysiwyg program used for creating the > page in the first place. I believe all of these entities were > implemented in HTML 1.0 so if the browser is compliant it should work. With which you touch on one of my pet peeves: Most of the web pages generated with those pseudo WYSIWYG editors do not use entities... Front Page seems to be especially bad when it comes to that. I've seen numerous pages where e.g. German umlauts or French special characters were typed "as is" as opposed to the correct way (i.e. using entities). Almost all of these pages had a "Front Page" tag in them. Utter rubbish that stuff - and I haven't even started talking about the thing with the fonts yet... :-/ ===