On Jul 17, 1:40 pm, Richard
<RichardDummyMailbox58... USComputerGurus.com>
wrote:
> I visitedhttp://whytheluckystiff.net/articles/seeingMet
aclassesClearly.html,
> which provides a neat tutorial about metaclasses in
Ruby programming.
>
> I particularly like the GUI the author created and want
to emulate his
> techniques. In particular, he used the (three
character) string âEURO(tm)
> (hex E2 80 99) which translated in ' (ASCII apostrophe)
in both
> Firefox 2 and HTML-Kit HTML-Kit Version 1.0 (Build
292). However, IE7
> leaves it untranslated.
>
> I presume the author coded the apostrophe this way was
for
> internationalization. But I don't see why this works
in Firefox and
> HTML-Kit. Can anyone explain why the following works
in those two
> browsers?
>
> <?xml version="1.0"
encoding="utf-8"?>
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0
Strict//EN"
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd&quo
t;>
> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/
1999/xhtml" lang="en"
xml:lang="en">
> <head>
> <title>Apostrophy Test.html</title>
> </head>
>
> <body>
> <p>If youâEURO(tm)re new to metaprogramming
in Ruby</p>
> </body
> </html>
My apologies. I reposted this in alt.html, because there's
no
scripting in this question. Also, I provided the Subject
there that
I meant to apply here: "String "âEURO(tm)"
translated to apostrophe. Why?"
Nevertheless, I'll check here for any responses and post
any useful
response I get at alt.html, if any.
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