At 04:03 PM 4/18/2001 -0400, Marc Seyon wrote:

>>  é  è ç etc.,
>
>Or use the numeric code instead for better cross-browser/platform 
>acceptance

This is the way I've always figured it worked: The descriptive 
approach was mostly *browser* dependent, in that not all browsers 
supported all the descriptive entities. But the numeric approach 
could lead mostly to *platform*-dependent inconsistencies (ie: 
Windows vs Mac).

For example, there's a spate of Windows-only  Latin 1 decimal 
character references (‚ though Œ and ‘ through œ 
plus Ÿ which I've always figured only worked as advertised on 
Windows machines ... which continues to make encoding for EN and EM 
dashes a cross-platform problem.

SRB






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Steve Bonisteel
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