http://www.logicalprogressions.net/blog Tue, 13 May 2008 05:33:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.logicalprogressions.net/blog/2007/09/xml-character-entities-cheat-sheet/comment-page-1/#comment-12 dmtdev » Blog Archive » Modern Web Design Tue, 13 May 2008 05:33:25 +0000 http://www.logicalprogressions.net/blog/?p=7#comment-12 [...] 7. Use proper Unicode entities. This is a minor point, but improper Unicode can frustrate obsessive people with incredible ease. You know the little vertical line character found on most U.S. layout keyboards that looks like ‘ ? That’s a prime, not a quote. You know the horizontal line character - ? It’s not a dash, hyphen, or anything else that looks similar. Check en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash for more information. Kudos go to my friend Chris Mitchell for pointing out this flaw; he has a helpful reference sheet here. [...] [...] 7. Use proper Unicode entities. This is a minor point, but improper Unicode can frustrate obsessive people with incredible ease. You know the little vertical line character found on most U.S. layout keyboards that looks like ‘ ? That’s a prime, not a quote. You know the horizontal line character – ? It’s not a dash, hyphen, or anything else that looks similar. Check en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash for more information. Kudos go to my friend Chris Mitchell for pointing out this flaw; he has a helpful reference sheet here. [...]

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