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Posted by Harlan Messinger on 11/19/07 13:45
The Unicode code charts present all characters with their hexadecimal
representations, but then people seem to tend to use the decimal
representations when they use numeric character references in their web
pages. Is my impression correct? If so, how is it that people came to
prefer having to convert between representations every time they looked
up the code for a character rather than just using the hex
representation directly and sticking an "x" between the pound sign and
the number? For example, the em dash is listed as character 2014(hex).
Why did people decide to use — instead of using — directly?
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