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Thanks guys! And this is not a question, when I view the – with Netscape on Solaris, I can not see the correct dash but a question mark if I set character set as UTF-8. Both – and – just work fine for character set ISO-8859-1 And I'm just wondering how many people really use UTF-8 for their browser..... :-) Regards Yue Peter Flynn wrote: > On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Wendell wrote: > > At 05:43 PM 3/13/01 -0500, Yue wrote: > > >Hi there, > > >How can I use the "dash" character in XSL? > > >I know I can use "–" in XML but it doesn't work if I put it in my > > >XSL. > > > > A character entity such as – should work fine. (I'm taking your word > > for it that it's the dash :-) > > Be careful, Yue: 0150 is an en-dash or en-rule (a short dash used > between ranged of numbers, sometimes typed like 36--45). What > most people call "the dash" --- used between phrases like this > --- is an em-dash or em-rule and is code point 0151, not 0150. > Better still, use the typographic characters if your rendering > system supports them: > > <!ENTITY ndash "–"> <!-- EN DASH --> > <!ENTITY mdash "—"> <!-- EM DASH --> > > ///Peter > > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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