"Joshua Hutchinson" <joshua@hutchinson.net> writes:
In my experience, HTML files DO currently switch -- to —
Under those circumstances something went wrong with http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/3/4/14340/14340-h/14340-h.htm .
However, the text files use -- because the — entity equivalent doesn't exist in 7bit ASCII.
That's okay.
I think I've seen this discussion before on DP forums. If I remember correctly, it was decided to stick to the xyz--xyz standard simply to avoid confusion and complication.
I'm not sure whether the German reading community will get used to it ;-) -- http://www.gnu.franken.de/ke/ | ,__o | _-\_<, | (*)/'(*) Key fingerprint = F138 B28F B7ED E0AC 1AB4 AA7F C90A 35C3 E9D0 5D1C