Re: [xsl] dash

Subject: Re: [xsl] dash
From: Mike Brown <mike@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 00:25:50 -0700 (MST)
YueMa wrote:
> Actually I used the &#8211; in my file and the Netscape can not give me the dash
> when I use UTF-8.

Please understand that Netscape 4.x and lower are the worst web browsers
around, when it comes to following the rules of HTML and CSS, not to
mention table rendering. The support for numeric character references is
apalling. Check it out...

Quoting from a nice site about Unicode & web browsers [1]:

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Navigator 4.08 can only use characters from a single encoding to display a
Web page, so the number of characters that can be displayed simultaneously
is far lower than with Internet Explorer 5.

Navigator 4.08 does not implement any alternative encoding that you select
from the View menu if the page has a charset specified in a meta tag.

Numeric character references, such as those used in the Unicode test pages,
are supposed be displayed independently of the document's character
encoding, but Navigator 4.08 is restricted to the numeric character
references that fall within the current encoding (either specified in a
meta tag or selected from the View menu). It is normally necessary to
select an encoding (from the View menu) in order to force numeric character
references to be displayed properly.

Navigator 4.08 does not seem to be able to display any of the HTML 4.0
character entity references that correspond to numeric character references
greater than 255."

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(The same applies to the Navigator part of Communicator 4.76.)


 [1] http://www.hclrss.demon.co.uk/unicode/


   - Mike
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