[thelist] Em dashes not displaying for the client

Sarah Sweeney mr.sanders at designshift.com
Thu Aug 26 12:21:26 CDT 2004


On 8/26/2004 1:35 PM Clive R Sweeney wrote:
> I just had an email from a client who says, "You use the EM dash — 
> in your pages and you also use charset=iso-8859-1. I don't think the EM 
> dash will display using that charset. It doesn't display for me in IE or 
> netscape or galeon or konqueror."
> 
> This is one of those situations where I don't have the problem but the 
> client does. I really don't want to replace all the em dashes on his 
> site with double hyphens, just because one person's computer doesn't 
> display the character properly. Then again, maybe this em dash problem 
> is more common than I think.
> 
> Apparently he has also tried replacing "iso-8859-1" with other character 
> encodings and the em dashes still don't display.
> 
> Does anyone have an idea what the problem is here?

FWIW, I just tried designshift.com (which has em-dashes on the home 
page) in all of my browsers, and it worked fine in all:
Netscape 4.8
Opera 7.01
Firefox 0.91
IE 5
IE 5.5
IE 6

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