Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 12/25/06 21:10

Scripsit - Bob -:

>> Then you would make a wrong suggestion. The question alone indicates
>> that the OP is not ready for using UTF-8 yet.
>
> What would your suggested solution be Jukka?

For the apostrophe, ’ is OK. Using the Ascii apostrophe " would be
even more reliable, at the cost of using an orthographically wrong
character, but everyone and his brother have been doing that on the Web for
years.

> The UTF-8 solution worked for the
> platforms I tested on (Mac, Win) but my testing is still narrow.

Well, I cannot help with testing, since you didn't specify a URL.

Using UTF-8 just for the sake of some apostrophes sounds overkill, but if
your server sends the correct HTTP header and you also declare the encoding
in a <meta> tag, it's of course a feasible approach, too. But are you sure
that you, and others who might edit the pages, will be able to use a UTF-8
enabled editor in all circumstances and will remember to keep UTF-8 as the
encoding when saving an edited copy?

The original question sounded like you had used windows-1252 (Windows Latin
1) without declaring the encoding. That would typically result in wrong
display in some (relatively rare) situations.

--
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

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