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| message from VBCDonna on 22 Jul 2004 |
When you import a .doc file that has Curly Quotes and not Straight Quotes into
DreamWeaver, will that effect how the text displays in the browser, or does
DreamWeaver compensate for that?
If not, is there an easy way to change all the curly quotes to straight quotes?
Thanks!
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| Paul Whitham TMM replied to VBCDonna on 22 Jul 2004 |
DW generally fixed that one.
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| James Shook replied to Murray *TMM* on 22 Jul 2004 |
Which browsers?
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| Joe {RoastHorse} replied to Murray *TMM* on 22 Jul 2004 |
from my experience DW will convert them to named html entities. numeric
would be better (which dwmx did) since old browsers don't understand the
names.
joe
Murray *TMM* wrote:
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| Joe {RoastHorse} replied to Murray *TMM* on 22 Jul 2004 |
what do you search and replace with?
joe
Murray *TMM* wrote:
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| Murray *TMM* replied to Joe {RoastHorse} on 22 Jul 2004 |
DMX2004. I think it will be easier to ask my clients to turn off curly
quotes, though.
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| Joe {RoastHorse} replied to Murray *TMM* on 22 Jul 2004 |
no, i mean what string do you replace the quotes with? numeric entities?
joe
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| Murray *TMM* replied to Joe {RoastHorse} on 22 Jul 2004 |
They come in as &rdquot; and &ldquot; or &rsquot; and &lsquot;, and I
replace them with " or " or '.
The 'curly quote' named entities do not render properly in Netscape.
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| Joe {RoastHorse} replied to Murray *TMM* on 22 Jul 2004 |
curly quotes should be fine if they are numeric entities. i think nn4
doesn't understand the names.
joe
Murray *TMM* wrote:
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| Joe {RoastHorse} replied to Murray *TMM* on 22 Jul 2004 |
true. dwmx imported them as numeric. some bright spart obviously thought
it was a good idea to change it.
joe
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| James Shook replied to Murray *TMM* on 22 Jul 2004 |
OK, but since you have to replace them anyway, why not use the numeric
entities rather than the inch mark? Although real quotation marks are
usually indistinguishable from the inch mark at body copy sizes, they do
show up distinctly when a page is printed.
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| James Shook replied to Joe {RoastHorse} on 22 Jul 2004 |
If you use “ and ” they work fine in every browser I've
tested them with, including NN4. But, as you say, NN4 doesn't understand
some of the named entities. So there's no excuse not to use real
quotation marks.
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| Michael Fesser replied to Murray *TMM* on 22 Jul 2004 |
.oO(Murray *TMM*)
Real quotes look better. I would replace the named entities with
(these chars are part of ISO-8859-1, no need for named entities) or the
decimal references
” “ ’ ‘
Micha
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| Murray *TMM* replied to Michael Fesser on 22 Jul 2004 |
It depends on how anal I am at the time I am replacing them! 8)
Sometimes I just go into the code and replace with the real things. That
works fine.
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