RE: css/special character conflict in ie

by "David Wagner" <dwagner(at)kevric.com>

Date:	Mon, 27 Mar 2000 14:16:36 -0600
To:	<hwg-style(at)mail.hwg.org>
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Mike Cunningham wrote
...
> contains a number of em dashes.
...
I am not certain, and I don't have a direct reference, but I 
believe this came up recently in a w3c mailing list.  I think 
the entity reference you use (&#151;) is illegal.  According to 
the special character entity set for HTML 4.01, the correct 
code is &mdash; or &#8212;.   I hope it works for you.
-David

http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/PR-html40-19990824/sgml/entities.html
<blockquote>
24.4 Character entity references for markup-significant and 
internationalization characters
...
Entities have also been added for the remaining characters 
occurring in CP-1252 which do not occur in the HTMLlat1 or 
HTMLsymbol entity sets. These all occur in the 128 to 159 
range within the CP-1252 charset. These entities permit the 
characters to be denoted in a platform-independent manner.
...
<!ENTITY mdash   CDATA "&#8212;" -- em dash, U+2014 ISOpub -->
...
</blockquote>

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