RE: dashes (was: • not working)

by "Jeanne A. E. DeVoto" <jaed(at)jaedworks.com>

Date:	Sun, 7 Jan 2001 22:24:50 -0800
To:	<hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org>
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At 7:31 PM -0800 1/7/2001, Tamara Abbey wrote:
>At 02:57 PM 1/7/01 -0800, Chuck Evans wrote:
>>en dash: &#150;
>>em dash: &#151;
>
>My little book says to use &#8212; for em dash and &#8211; for en dash.
>
>But, that too may be Windows-specific.

No, that's correct. Your entities are part of Unicode; the entities Chuck
Evans gave are undefined, both under Unicode and under ISO-8859.

(In theory, all browsers that are compatible with HTML 4.0 or later can
render Unicode characters, though in practice your mileage may vary. But
doesn't it always.)

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