[conspire] I renounce the devil Unicode and all of its works

Don Marti dmarti at zgp.org
Thu May 19 09:21:47 PDT 2011


begin Rick Moen quotation of Thu, May 19, 2011 at 12:00:14AM -0700:

> So, me, I'd fix the problem by using the vertical ", which
> Latin-1/Latin-9 carry over from primordial US-ASCII (still in charset
> position 34 decimal), or by using its HTML-entity equivalent " .

HTML entities?  If you're going to use HTML, I say,
<q>why not just use the <code>q</code> element?</q>
That way the browser handles the quotation marks,
and you can catch unclosed quotations at HTML
validation time.

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Don Marti                    
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