Quoted speech

[Fred Ridder]

Yes, typographic quotes (either single or double) are a problem if you restrict yourself to ISO 8859-1.

But Theresa indicated that she also converts curly brackets to some other character in the belief that they cause problems in HTML and/or epub. ISO 8859-1 does have code points for all four style of brackets/braces, namely plain parentheses plus square, curly, and angle brackets/braces. None of these should cause any problem, even in a lowest common denominator system.

It's also important to note that the use of straight vs. curled quote marks and apostrophes will not cause any significant misunderstanding except in the case of computer code. But substituting one type of bracket/brace for another is usually a bad idea because these different symbols are semantically different, particularly in technical and mathematical contexts. 

-Fred Ridder

> Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2014 09:53:43 -0700
> Subject: Re: Quoted speech
> From: robert at lauriston.com
> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> 
> Coding the HTML correctly doesn't ensure that the reader's system has
> the necessary character.
> 
>  Best practice is generally to stick to the extended 8-bit ASCII
> character set (ISO 8859-1), which does not include U+2018, U+2019,
> U+201C, or U+201D.
> 
> On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 12:48 AM, Davis, David
> <David.Davis at non.schneider-electric.com> wrote:
> > Theresa,
> > There should be no problem with those characters in HTML, so long as you put the correct declarations in the Header part of the page (to declare what character set you are using). If you look at a Japanese, Korean or Chinese site, for instance, you'll generally see they manage to have a plenty of non-ASCII characters in them ;)
> > Alternatively, you can put & escape sequences in your HTML for those characters.

 		 	   		  
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