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Posted by Harlan Messinger on July 31, 2007, 9:13 am
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The Bicycling Guitarist wrote:
>> Andy Dingley wrote:
>>> On 31 Jul, 09:07, "The Bicycling Guitarist"
>>>> I am replacing straight vertical apostrophes with ’ throughout
>>>> my web site.
>>> Why?
>>>
>>> Are you certain that your management of encoding is accurate and
>>> reliable enough to deliver these correctly in all cases?
>> Unless the encoding is something like EBCDIC (in which case all bets are
>> off), the treatment of the characters &, #, 8, 2, 1, 7, and ; will be
>> independent of the encoding. Which is actually the point in using numeric
>> codes to represent these characters.
> Hi Harlan and thanks for posting.
> I don't know what you mean by what you just said (perhaps because it is four
> a.m. and I am tired). Won't those characters in that order be recognized as
> a character entity and be rendered as a curly apostrophe?
Yes.
> What about in meta
> tags such as description? Do I dare replace the straight apostrophes in the
> description with the character entity for a curly apostrophe?
Yes, and for the same reason. The title is different--since the title is
typically rendered by the operating system (for example, in the Internet
Explorer window's caption bar) rather than by the browser's
HTML-rendering engine, I think there can be problems.
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