[thelist] Site check IE Mac

[Kasimir K]

Kevin Stevens scribeva in 2005-08-15 18:13:
> site where the hyphens started appearing as question marks. To make sure 
> this didn't happen again I used the ampersand alternative – instead. 

> 1. Why is this happening?

Especially older browsers' support for character entities ("the 
ampersand alternative") leaves a lot to hope for.

> 3. What can I do to prevent this?

You could start by reading Jukka Korpela's article "Dashes and hyphens":
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/dashes.html

.k