Re: LYNX-DEV lynx interpretation of &#146

[Klaus Weide]

On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, John Russell, VE3LL wrote:

> this code is being used by many word procs to represent the
> 'correct' apostrophe mark. for those of us in text mode, the
> tick  (') is good enuff so could lynx just translate it...
> this would make a lot of web stuff more readable
> thanks for a job well done cu address@hidden

Complain to those people who use this in their Web pages.  It is
absolutely wrong.  There are no valid "codes" (numerical character
references) between  and Ÿ (inclusive).

You might think that it represents a certain character because most pages
you see are using it that way.  But it's only the result of broken tools
and clueless authors on one vendor's operating systems.  They are standing
in the way of progress towards a truly international web.  Supporting them
in the way you suggest would be a step backward.  On some operating
system or with some fonts or character sets other than Microsoft's, 146
may mean something completely different.  Even for Windows fonts, the
codes in that region have different meanings in versions for different
regions and languages.

       Klaus

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