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Re:non-alphabet characters

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Connolly)
Sat Oct 8 19:47:36 1994

Date: Sun, 9 Oct 1994 00:44:15 +0100
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From: connolly@hookup.net (Mark Connolly)
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www0.cern.ch>

>You'll notice the little << and >> characters are at positions 171 and 187,
>respectively. If you can convince you're editor to insert character
>171 in the document (e.g. ctrl-q,2,5,3 in emacs), you're in business.
>Otherwise, you can use the character reference markup:
>
>        guillemotleft:  &#171;

Well, the first thing I did wrong was to misinterpret the clearly written
HTML 2.0 documentation. I was trying to represent the characters using
_&guillemotleft;_, which is an option for the alphabet characters. Not sure
why I thought that would work.

>Hmmm... yes: mosaic correctly handles this markup.

Mosaic for the Mac (2.0Alpha 8 version), which is the browser I use to
check my progress while writing HTML documents, doesn't seem to recognize
&#171;.

I've also just tried version 1.03, which _does_ recognize it!

Anyway, thanks.

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Mark Connolly
Connolly Design Inc., Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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