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Getting special characters to display properly at blog

Getting special characters to display properly at blog
Thu, 26 Apr 2007 15:24:09 -040
Working on my blog with Opera.  If I use special characters like curly
quotes or em dashes, Opera turns them into weird code, both in the blog
editing window and online.  This does not happen with Internet Explorer.
How can I change Opera so that I can use curly quotes and have them display
normally on all browsers looking at my site?

The blog uses Movable Type.
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Re: Getting special characters to display properly at blog
Sat, 28 Apr 2007 10:49:45 +120
On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 07:24:09 +1200, Larry <larry328NOSPAM@att.net> wrote:

> Working on my blog with Opera.  If I use special characters like curly
> quotes or em dashes, Opera turns them into weird code, both in the blog
> editing window and online.  This does not happen with Internet Explorer.
> How can I change Opera so that I can use curly quotes and have them  
> display
> normally on all browsers looking at my site?
>
This is because Internet Explorer has "legacy support" for illegal  
character codes (between 0128 and 159) which no standards-compliant  
browser will display. It looks as though the MT editor isn't smart enough  
to turn them into the correct codes.

use either numeric or character entities:  
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/sgml/entities.html

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