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jgray · 03-26-2009, 10:09 PM

I have had trouble with the named character entities not displaying correctlyin some situations. It is safer to use the numeric entities, which will always work:

Left double quote = “
Right double quote = ”

Some text editors will allow you to enter the UTF-8 character, or the named entity and convert them to numeric on command.

The named entities that are safe to use in all cases are:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...ntities_in_XML

03-26-2009, 10:09 PM	#6
jgray Fanatic Posts: 548 Karma: 2928497 Join Date: Mar 2008 Device: Clara 2E & Sage	I have had trouble with the named character entities not displaying correctlyin some situations. It is safer to use the numeric entities, which will always work: Left double quote = “ Right double quote = ” Some text editors will allow you to enter the UTF-8 character, or the named entity and convert them to numeric on command. The named entities that are safe to use in all cases are: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...ntities_in_XML Last edited by jgray; 03-26-2009 at 10:14 PM.