Re: lynx-dev LYNX: "&#151": em-dash?

[David Combs]

Wow -- I managed to find it: Search for "boss"
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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&#151;he's my boss&#151;who runs
> > > >  
> > > > you're right, it should be ` -- ': that's correct secretarial style.
> 
> I am really confused here. In which character set is &#151; 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