Ems, ens, quotes, and other odd characters
Jan. 29th, 2004 | 10:08 pm
I thought I'd take a lesson or two in typography with HTML, when I found this cool write‑up: “The Trouble With EM ’n EN (and Other Shady Characters): A List Apart” Now, this post follows some of that advice—the “special” characters here have been entered as numeric Unicode codes. Only on my 3rd sentence, I realise what a pain this is. Perhaps I should get a keyboard that has direct support for these characters.
So I've decided to stick with latin1 for now. I'll use a double hyphen (--) for a em-dash (—), a plain double quote (") for opening and closing double quotes (“ and ”), three dots (...) for ellipsis (…), and so on.
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So I've decided to stick with latin1 for now. I'll use a double hyphen (--) for a em-dash (—), a plain double quote (") for opening and closing double quotes (“ and ”), three dots (...) for ellipsis (…), and so on.
This post is brought to you by Mozilla Firebird 0.7 (GTK2/XFT build) on Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3 (Taroon).