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Originally Posted by jlandahl
Thank you for the helpful advice. I got away from using named character entities like “ some time ago because they weren't always properly rendered, whereas the numeric ones were. For example, in my original post on this board, & didn't render properly and I had to use &.
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That's strange, I've never had any problem with named entities.
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It's interesting that epubcheck 1.1 doesn't catch non-Unicode character entities, and that, given that the 3-digit codes are Windows ones, they were never rendered properly by Microsoft Reader!
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Well, they are not exactly non-Unicode, it's just that in Unicode that particular slot is not assigned to the character you want. For example ’ is #8217 in Unicode, and #146 in Windows-1258; but #146 in Unicode is just a control character (Private Use 2). If you use #146 in your code, epubcheck has no way of knowing whether you wanted to use the right single quote or the control character.