[wp-hackers] WordPress Uses "Wrong" Apostrophe in Blog Title

Rob Miller r at robm.me.uk
Sun Jul 8 03:32:36 GMT 2007


Matt wrote:
> On 7/7/07, Charles <lists07 at wiltgen.net> wrote:
>
>
> But, &apos; (the preferred apostrophe code by W3C, but not very many, if
> any, browsers support it) is the same as &#39;. Otherwise, why would 
> the W3C
> recommend using it instead of &apos; for backwards-compatability.
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/guidelines.html#C_16
>
It says "&#39; is the equivalent of the XML &apos;", not "use &#39; 
whenever you want to use an apostrophe in your writing"?

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Rob Miller
http://robm.me.uk/



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