> >BTW – seems to always provide an en dash, —, an em dash.
>
> Interesting -- Netscape for Macintosh does not map en dash and em dash to
> those characters for Latin-1. You would think Netscape 1.1 for Windows and
> Macintosh would map those characters to the same ISO codes, wouldn't you?
The character code positions are unused in the range 128-160 (which are the
equivalent of the control characters, but with bit 7 set), so any characters
in that range are technically errors; if browsers do display them, the results
will necessarily be system dependent. See:
http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/MarkUp/html-spec/html-spec_12.html#SEC98
> >My biggest
> >problem now is to display an author's name from an Eastern European country
> >whose name has a cap Y and two dots over it. No dice in a western font.
Yes. Bizarrely, there is the lower case form of that character (255) but no
upper case version. In fact, ISO-8859-[1 to 10] do not seem to have an
uppercase Y umlaut.
Bear in mind that ISO-8859-1 is for Western European languages. See
http://www.cs.tu-berlin.de/~czyborra/charsets/
At present, HTML is unable to accomodate other character sets, although this
will assuredly change in the future.
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