Re: lynx-dev LYNX: SINGLE-hyphen vs EM-dash vs "&151"?

[Kari E. Hurtta]

David Combs:
> > From address@hidden Sat Jan 23 13:33:17 1999
> > From: address@hidden
> > Subject: Re: lynx-dev LYNX: SINGLE-hyphen vs EM-dash vs "&151"?
> > 
> > > 
> > > At this addr, with this html: 
> > >  
> > > http://www.motherjones.com/news_wire/parrish3.html   
> > > address@hidden 
> > >  
> > >  
> > > their political will—not to be confused with justice—is done. 
> > > Unfortunately  
> > >  
> > >  
> > > , it comes out as "political will-not to be confused with justice-is 
> > > done". 
> > >  
> > > Whose fault?  Theirs (choosing 151) or lynx's (displaying it)? 
> > >  
> > > Of course, it SHOULD display (with proper english style) as 
> > > "--" in lynx (preferably with surrounding spaces, making it easier 
> > > to read in ascii-output). 
> > 
> > it SHOULD (but I thought about using em-dash a short while ago and found
> > that lynx isn't the only program that doesn't display it - iirc, IE 3 and
> > NS 4).  It'd be fine for Lynx to implement it though.
> 
> Doesn't answer the questions (1) whose fault, lynx or the 151, and
>  (I guess) (2) what IS 151?
> 
> IF 151 means em-dash, then lynx is WRONG to show just a 
> single hyphen -- it makes MISLEADING english, as a hyphen
> combines two parts of ONE "word" (logical word, I guess),
> whereas " -- " separates two phrases or clauses or whatever
> they're called.  It is actually sort of serious, not just
> "what looks better".
> 
> Just my opinion.
> 
> Anyway, what IS "151"?

HTML codebase is Latin/1 or unicode (when used &#nnn; references -- charset 
parameter does not change this) nd there is no characters on range 127-159.

/ Kari Hurtta