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Thread #40609   Message #581893
Posted By: JohnInKansas
29-Oct-01 - 10:10 AM
Thread Name: BS: HTML CHARACTERS: REDACT/REDUX
Subject: RE: BS: HTML CHARACTERS: REDACT/REDUX
Summary of information in the tables:

WHAT YOU CAN TYPE:

All Latin1 characters display and print as expected.
This group includes all normal "English - US" keyboard characters.
(The soft hyphen does not show a result if typed alone, but this is the intended behavior.)

Three normal keyboard characters have special meanings in html, and should always be coded.
These three are:

& for which you can type & to display the character.
< for which you type &lt; to display the character.
> for which you type &gt; to display the character.

A fourth normal keyboard character, ", can have special meaning.
It may normally be simply typed in text, but you may prefer to code it in text as &quot; to avoid those rare instances when it "misbehaves."


John