entities
Symantec/Scott Morison
<xvicto...@yale.edu> wrote:
> I've enjoyed using Visual Page for the Mac since it was released and
> appreciate the new features in 1.1.1. However, I have a client who
> insists on using typographer's "curley" quotes and apostrophies as
> well as em and en space dashes in his publication and I find that
> Visual Page changes these into a number of accented characters in the
> HTML. I've been compensating for this by doing a batch find and
> replace in BBEdit to convert these characters into their correct
> entities. For instance, an em space dash is converted to a lowercase
> n tilde in Visual Page which should correctly be —. Some of the
> other HTML authoring apps I've tried handle these entities correctly,
> while others have their share of problems as well. None of them work
> as nicely as Visual Page!
>
> I've tried your trial 2.0 version of Visual Page for the PC to see if
> this problem was licked, but found that these typographer's marks are
> converted into "|" marks instead on the PC. Is there any way to get
> Visual Page for the Mac to work correctly with these characters?
Victor -
Unfortunately, because such characters as the curly quotes, are not part
of the ISO-8859-1 character set, Visual Page will translate them to their
closest legal ISO-8859-1 character.
On the other hand, many, if not most, browsers will correctly display such
non-ISO-8859-1 compliant characters, even though it is discouraged by the
HTML 3.2 and 4.0 standards.
So, your only real choice if you must insist on the use of such
characters, is to add them subsquently to the editing in Visual Page,
using an alternative editor.
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Scott Morison
Lead Technician, Internet Tools Technical Support
Symantec Corporation
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