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Re: [MacPerl] HTML Entities decoding
On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, John W Baxter wrote:
> — is "Nonstandard" (and should be an en dash, with – being an em
> dash).
>
> In HTML 4, en-dash is – (or, better, –) and em-dash is —
> (or, better, —). I don't know how far back those go.
>
> See <http://w3c.org/TR/REC-html40/sgml/entities.html>
> then search for "dash"
Or you can pull the values out of the "UnicodeData.txt" file, which is a
nice big 456K text file. :-) Available off the Unicode website.
I've tried to start using these now, having a streak of pedanticism in me,
and if a browser shows garbage, so be it. :-)
Arved
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