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[asgilman]

>   
>            Re: lynx-dev LYNX: SINGLE-hyphen vs EM-dash vs "&151"?

>     * Subject: Re: lynx-dev LYNX: SINGLE-hyphen vs EM-dash vs "&151"?
>     * From: address@hidden
>     * Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 16:29:51 -0500 (EST)
>     * In-Reply-To: <address@hidden> from
>       "David Combs <address@hidden>" at Jan 23, 99 06:19:49 am
>>
>> At this addr, with this html:
>>
>> [10]http://www.motherjones.com/news_wire/parrish3.html
>> address@hidden
>>
>>
>> their political will&#151;not to be confused with justice&#151;is done. Unfor
>tunately
>>
>>
>> , it comes out as "political will-not to be confused with justice-is done".
>>
>> Whose fault?  Theirs (choosing 151) or lynx's (displaying it)?
>>
>> Of course, it SHOULD display (with proper english style) as
>> "--" in lynx (preferably with surrounding spaces, making it easier
>> to read in ascii-output).
>
>it SHOULD (but I thought about using em-dash a short while ago and found
>that lynx isn't the only program that doesn't display it - iirc, IE 3 and
>NS 4).  It'd be fine for Lynx to implement it though.
>

It is not clear what Lynx _should_ display for the invalid numeric
entity reference &#151; I believe the correct numerical form 
for the &mdash; that you want is

<!ENTITY mdash   CDATA "&#8212;" -- em dash, U+2014 ISOpub -->

. I got this from HTML 4.0.

I agree that better handling of &mdash; would be better.

Al