[thelist] Non-breaking "-" (dash)

aardvark roselli at earthlink.net
Mon Apr 8 10:23:52 CDT 2002


> From: "Cristian Secara" <secarica at fx.ro>
>
> >1. The non-breaking hyphen (&#8209; not in HTML) does just what its
> >name implies."
>
> What means "not in HTML" ? This is a Unicode character, not a HTML
> character. I have done a test with &#8209; that passed the W3C
> validator. The only real problem is the operating system and/or font
> (if it has Unicode support and/or if it supports that character).

not in HTML means it's not in the spec... the salient piece of that
spec, with rendering examples, is posted at:
http://www.evolt.org/article/list/17/21234/

and francois has done a great job of tracking browser support at:
http://www.fjordaan.uklinux.net/entities/entities_support.html




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