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Re: lynx-dev LYNX: "—": em-dash?
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David Combs |
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Re: lynx-dev LYNX: "—": em-dash? |
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Sat, 5 Sep 1998 17:07:48 -0700 (PDT) |
Wow -- I managed to find it: Search for "boss"
on:
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> From address@hidden Fri Sep 4 21:15:41 1998
> Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 21:13:20 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Doug Kaufman <address@hidden>
>
> On Fri, 4 Sep 1998 address@hidden wrote:
>
> > In a recent note, brian j. pardy said:
> >
> > > Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 19:16:56 -0700
> > >
> > > > > This code: who—he's my boss—who runs
> > > >
> > > > you're right, it should be ` -- ': that's correct secretarial style.
>
> I am really confused here. In which character set is — a dash? In
> the ISO 8859-x series isn't this part of a reserved series which is not
> supposed to represent characters (0x80 - 0x9f)? I know that the
> Microsoft character sets use these codes, but lynx does seem to be
> interpreting them, even when viewing ISO 8859-1. Is this a bug in lynx,
> or code put in to interpret Microsoft character sets mislabeled as a
> different character set? Or, more likely, I don't understand what this
> discussion is about. Could someone explain the basics of this for me?
> Doug
- Re: lynx-dev LYNX: "—": em-dash?, (continued)
- Re: lynx-dev LYNX: "—": em-dash?, Leonid Pauzner, 1998/09/04
- Re: lynx-dev LYNX: "—": em-dash?, Leonid Pauzner, 1998/09/04
- Re: lynx-dev LYNX: "—": em-dash?, Lloyd G. Rasmussen, 1998/09/04
- Re: lynx-dev LYNX: "—": em-dash?, Leonid Pauzner, 1998/09/05
- Re: lynx-dev LYNX: "—": em-dash?, David Combs, 1998/09/05
- Re: lynx-dev LYNX: "—": em-dash?,
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- Re: lynx-dev LYNX: "—": em-dash?, David Combs, 1998/09/05
- Re: lynx-dev LYNX: "—": em-dash?, David Combs, 1998/09/05