FW: Bogus Character References (was: ...Preserving White Space...)

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this didn't go to the group the first time.


I would personally be interested in knowing the reason why 128-159 are wrong
(I had heard that, but do not know why).

The problem that this problem is trying to solve though is the use of
different style quotes...

are : ” “ (right and left double-quote)
	’‘  (right and left single-quote)

acceptable uses? I am warned that they only work in unicode/DBCS browsers.

The issue R. Ivan addresses is the use of the angle quotes in parts of
europe, and the fact that standard quote (") is not easily translated into
left and right angle quotes (��).

And I apologize for the North American-centric use of "normal quotes" <g>.


> Please, folks!
>
> We need to take a firm line on this.
>
>   ** DO NOT USE CHARACTER REFERENCES IN THE RANGE 128-159 ***
>
> Unfortunately, the explanation of why this usage is utterly wrong is
> rather technical.  If people want, I can provide it, as a separate
> posting, but I can say right now, you will not find a single person who
> *knows* the specs who will tell you otherwise.
>
> On Sun, 6 Feb 2000, R. Ivan Linderman wrote:
>
> > I didn't give it a lot of thought, but here is some HTML markup
>
> Actually, it isn't.  It's a well-known **BUG** that the popular browsers
> continue to "support", figuring people Just Won't Get It Anyway.
>
> > &#145;Let Lancelot know, my King, let Lancelot know,
> > </q>&#146;</p>
>
> The character references &#145; and &#146; are undefined, both in HTML and
> XHTML.  Just because they seem to "work" on some browser is not a good
> enough reason to pollute the Project Gutenberg materials with usages that
> are known - and have always been known - to be bogus.
>
> Please Please Please Please don't do this.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> Arjun
>

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