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Old 03-06-2008, 11:27 AM   #8
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Originally Posted by DaleDe View Post
Well an emdash is certainly not in the ascii character set. It really has the same problem with certain font sets and code sets as curly apostrophes and quotes do.

Dale
It does indeed - it's in different character positions in codepage 1252 and UTF-8. That's why, I think, in plain text files it's best to do as PG do and represent it as "--". This can easily be replaced with a "real" dash on other systems. In HTML, provided one represents it as the "—" entity, there's no problem.
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