From: Aredridel <aredridel@...>
Date: 2004-06-11T02:19:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Smart Quotes

> "Smart quotes are a feature found in many popular word processing
> programs. They're smart because they automatically insert open
> quotation marks at the beginning of a word and closed quotation marks
> at the end. Unfortunately, HTML is not smart enough for smart quotes
> since they aren't plain ASCII, so if you have smart quotes in your
> code, you'll end up with some strange characters on your Web page. Be
> sure to have smart quotes turned off whenever writing HTML code. "

Actually, just put the appropriate character set declaration in your
code, and it works nicely:

<meta http-equiv='Content-type' value='text/html; charset=iso8859-1' />

If you speak English and the smart quotes are one byte, then iso-8859-1
is for you. If they're two bytes, then UTF-8 is the character set that's
being used.

If you're not in a primarily English-speaking country, it'll be iso-
8859-something-else  (-2 for poland, I know -- there's a list if you
look.)