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

[Sarah Sweeney]

> The — entity is valid and I think it's now the standard for 
> displaying em dashes. Certainly it works for me in all my test browsers 
> (on Windows and Mac).
> 
> But I guess I'm still in limbo here. We have this apparently 
> authoritative article that suggests there's a problem, but I'd like to 
> hear if others on thelist have actually experienced the problem. Is it 
> really significant?

What happens if you switch to utf-8? Do the em-dashes work for the 
client then? I suppose there may be reasons not to use utf-8, but I'm 
not sure what they would be.

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