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(jcwren) Re: Spaced Out

by jcwren (Prior)
on Feb 22, 2001 at 22:07 UTC ( [id://60276]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Spaced Out

Occasionally, you'll also find a document that uses "Microsoft Smart-Quotes" or somesuch garbage. These are a result of people creating web pages in MS-Word and MS-Powerpoint. It's most often evident in single and double quoting. 0x93 and 0x94 are the pairs for double quotes, don't know about single-quotes off hand.

I'm a little unclear what the whole point of "Smart-Quotes" is, but they break things. In particular, they render as garbage on most non-MS browsers.

Rather than duplicate some already good information, here's a link to an explanation, and a Perl program that strips the offending characters out.

--Chris

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Re: (jcwren) Re: Spaced Out
by TStanley (Canon) on Feb 22, 2001 at 22:49 UTC
    You can also include the Composer feature in Netscape Communicator. This
    also has the nasty habit of adding the & nbsp character in the code as well.

    TStanley
    In the end, there can be only one!
Re: (jcwren) Re: Spaced Out
by elusion (Curate) on Feb 23, 2001 at 01:10 UTC
    As to the Microsoft Products, I'm sure it's some evil plan to try and establish their "dominance". What better way to do this than invent "technology" and have it implemented in only your products?

    I do use the ' ' once in a while on my pages, but with good reason. With Netscape at least, empty tables will disappear without one of the characters in the table. I use colored tables on my pages quite extensively instead of horizontal rules, and this is necessary to do the job.

    - p u n k k i d
    "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." -Albert Einstein

    Update: Sorry folks, didn't read all the posts before I commented about the tables

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