Thread: Named entities or not?
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Old 07-20-2009, 09:39 AM   #9
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Originally Posted by Jellby View Post
I've said that before, but I also use a mix of named an numbered entities for quotes and apostrophes. I use ’ for a curly right single quote, and & #8217; for a curly apostrophe. They are exactly the same character, but it's nice to have them different in the source files if I want to search&replace or something.
The best possible thing would be to use xhtml quote tags:
Code:
<q> </q>
, then define the quote characters in css, the way it is intended to be. Such a solution works for nested quotes, too.

Sadly, this doesn't work for me in ADE/505.
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