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Re: Using entities for me dash problem

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• Subject: Re: Using entities for me dash problem
• From: Richard Tobin <richard@c...>
• Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 18:23:47 GMT
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• In-reply-to: <BBFB268C.10AF%subscriber@p...>
• Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh

In article <BBFB268C.10AF%subscriber@p...> you write:

>Okay, actually, the root of my misunderstanding comes from valid XML--is it
>okay then, within a UTF-8 encoded XML document, to just type the em dash?

Yes.  (Though "valid" is a technical term here: you're really asking
about well-formedness.)  The same goes for any other encoding that
includes em-dash.

Apart from the syntactically significant characters - angle brackets,
ampersand, quotes - you only *need* character references when the
encoding doesn't support the character.  Of course, having a keyboard
that lets you type it and a font that lets you see it is useful too.

-- Richard

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