[thelist] Re: Em dashes not displaying for the client

[s t e f]

<quote who='Ken Chase' when='26/08/2004 22:00'>

> On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 20:45:56 +0200, "s t e f" <evolt at nota-bene.org>
> said:
> 
>><quote who='Clive R Sweeney' when='26/08/2004 20:11'>
>>
>>>This is just getting worse and worse. Maybe.
>>
>>Maybe I'm missing something, too, but why not use the valid &mdash;
>>entity?
> 
> 
> In case you care, NN4 doesn't like this. Maybe others as well?

Oh, yeah... damn...

Why not go server-side and check/replace double dashes with em-dashes in 
the case when the user-agent string is not Netscape 4, for instance?

(yeah, I know it's quite radical, but I don't see how you could do 
something that would be both largely supported and standard...)

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