Re: Translating foreign text into html code - help



Thu, 27 Oct 2005 13:08:47 +0100 from Alan J. Flavell
<flavell@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Stan Brown wrote:
> > (*) Mozilla 1.7 under Windows XP renders the 148 as a curly quote,
> > even if I change windows-1252 to iso-8859-1 in the <meta>. Is that
> > correct behavior?
>
> I don't think there's any definition of "correct" behaviour when
> UNUSED characters are included in HTML.

Makes sense; thanks.

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