&emdash

[Howard Brazee]

When a site such as
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=60920#faq1 has text
that says:

Answer: iPod was designed for people with an active lifestyle. It is
compact and lightweight enough to take with you wherever you go. It
was designed to fit comfortably in the palm of your hand or to be
slipped into a pocket or purse for easy transport. iPod offers up to
20 minutes of skip protection &emdash; twice that of other hard drive
&emdash; based MP3 players on the market - so you can enjoy outdoor
athletic activities without missing a beat.

Does that mean the site's broken, or is there a setting on my computer
that needs to be set?

[C A Upsdell]

This is due to an error in the code. The person making the page should
have typed "—", not "&emdash;".

[Chuck Davis]

The site developer did not use the correct coding. It's not your computer
"Howard Brazee" <how...@brazee.net> wrote in message
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[Tony Mechelynck]

Indeed. Some older browsers (not the current releases of the Gecko-family
browsers) don't even recognise &mdash; but they do recognise the equivalent
&#8212; . It means the em dash character (U+2014), a long horizontal stroke,
about as wide as an uppercase M, hence its name.

Best regards,
Tony.