[thelist] [fwd] Non-breaking hyphen ???

[rudy]

>>Just saw this on another list yesterday. Not sure if it works or not...
>>–
>
>This is not really a hyphon, but an "en-dash". Bit longer then a 
>hyphon. — is an "em-dash". Each is used for something different.

please be careful with those things

the &#45 hyphen is part of the iso standard, but &#150 and &#151 are not

  "ISO-8859-1 does not assign displayable characters
   to code points in the range (decimal)128-159.
   Some platforms (e.g MS Windows) that are
   otherwise ISO-8859-1 conformant, might use
   these codes to represent additional character
   encodings, but they cannot and should not be
   relied on for communicating information on the
   World Wide Web - they could display as anything,
   or nothing, on other platforms or browsers"

the above is from "ISO-8859 briefing and resources" at
http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/iso8859/iso8859-pointers.html


rudy