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 This file: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>test char 150</title> </head> <body> <p>x–x</p> <p>Should see xx and not x dash x</p> </body> </html> Displays as x dash x (x-x) on both Windows and Mac, using IE, Firefox and Safari. If I've read it correctly, character 0x96 (#150) is only ever a dash in Windows-1252 (ANSI) whereas in Unicode it's a non-displayed control character. In the XML spec it states that the parser must only resolve character references using Unicode - so why do the browsers render #150 as a dash? I could understand IE doing it (always using a HTML parser), but not Firefox which (afaik) parses XHTML pages with an XML parser. Is it that the use of ANSI is so widespread that the browsers knowingly break the spec and render them anyway (again, something I wouldnt have thought of FF) The reason for the question is that I intended raise this as a bug and get the app that saved out #150 to use #8211 instead - but at the moment it seems like #150 always gets rendered as a dash by browsers on both platforms, so there's very little reason to get it changed. thanks andrew 
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