[l2h] double quoation in latex2html

[Brendan Halpin]

Ross Moore <ross at ics.mq.edu.au> writes:

> On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Taechul Lee wrote:
> > When I put a double quotation mark in emacs, it automatically translate
> > into `` ''. After compile, it looks good. However, when I translate it
> > html with latex2html, it just put `` '' mark.
> >
> > Is it natural or I try to find another method to put a quotation mark ?
> 
> It is natural, since the "curly quotes" used by Windows do not reside at
> a standard location within the ISO-Latin font-encodings.
> Instead Windows-encodings place these characters within the "forbidden"
> regions of encoding vectors. As a result, they would show as weird
> alternative characters on non-Windows platforms (e.g. Macintosh).
> 
> Due to this non-standard treatment, LaTeX2HTML is programmed to not use
> such characters, though it is possible to overide this.

Why not use entities like &lsquo; and friends? Then the browser can
take care of worrying about what platform it is on, and what fonts
it has.

Brendan
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