[Wikipedia-l] On browsers, UTF-8 and attitude.

[Ralesk Ne'vennoyx]

Mav said the following quoted text:
 >Well a person should /not/ be using fancy things
 >like curly quotes and long hyphens because many
 >browsers (especially on non-MS systems) display them
 >as question makes.

I expect a couple typographists to get serious heart problems from that.

 >These should be fixed, not allowed
 >to propagate.

Please!  Let's all return to the 6-bit ASCII set, everything else is 
bloat, and unsupported by older systems.

 >The fact that some browsers break these
 >codes should be a good hint that they should not be
 >used to begin with (esp. since ASCII quotes and
 >regular hyphens can be used instead).

Just as I said above.

Also, from another post:
 >When I see "You need to
 >upgrade your browser" I leave and never come back.

Please, also, keep your Netscape 4 and watch it break every standard and 
recommendation that W3C proposed.  You may also try things with 
NetPositive and the likes, which are though newer, but support 
/nothing/.  Hell, lynx and (e)links do better at 'splaying a page.  And 
indeed, if your browser, or whoever's browser SUCKS, then sorry, compile 
a links.  It's shouldn't be /that/ hard, especially for hardcore users 
of heavily outdated servermonsters (which are, granted, otherwise quite 
good).

Unicode is the Present.  Live With It™.

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Ralesk Ne'vennoyx
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