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Re: dash
Thanks guys!
And this is not a question, when I view the – with Netscape on Solaris,
I can not see the correct dash but a question mark if I set character set as
UTF-8.
Both – and – just work fine for character set ISO-8859-1
And I'm just wondering how many people really use UTF-8 for their browser.....
:-)
Regards
Yue
Peter Flynn wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Wendell wrote:
> > At 05:43 PM 3/13/01 -0500, Yue wrote:
> > >Hi there,
> > >How can I use the "dash" character in XSL?
> > >I know I can use "–" in XML but it doesn't work if I put it in my
> > >XSL.
> >
> > A character entity such as – should work fine. (I'm taking your word
> > for it that it's the dash :-)
>
> Be careful, Yue: 0150 is an en-dash or en-rule (a short dash used
> between ranged of numbers, sometimes typed like 36--45). What
> most people call "the dash" --- used between phrases like this
> --- is an em-dash or em-rule and is code point 0151, not 0150.
> Better still, use the typographic characters if your rendering
> system supports them:
>
> <!ENTITY ndash "–"> <!-- EN DASH -->
> <!ENTITY mdash "—"> <!-- EM DASH -->
>
> ///Peter
>
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