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“ ” ‘ ’ work on everything I have here

Posted Apr 9, 2004 4:21 UTC (Fri) by leonbrooks (guest, #1494)
In reply to: Weird characters by Ross
Parent article: X.Org Foundation releases X Window System X11R6.7

That's what OpenOffice's HTML editor uses, so I've taken to using them in my own HTML, and not found anything that blips yet. Konqeror seems to know enough to replace them with straight quotes if the charset doesn't support them. What does your browser show?

"straight quotes"

“double curlies”

'apostrophes'

‘single curlies’


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“ ” ‘ ’ work on everything I have here

Posted Apr 9, 2004 16:32 UTC (Fri) by Ross (subscriber, #4065) [Link]

Yes, all those show up correctly. However the original document didn't use
them -- it used raw 8-bit characters in the reserved range. But as for what
HTML entities to use, “ is even more portable than “.

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