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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: khtmlw bug : black boxes instead of chars
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () ens ! ascom ! ch>
Date:       1999-01-22 9:43:23
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Andreas Pour wrote:
> > Oops, I read so much of English that I don't realize it !!
> > The URL is the right one. I just didn't notice it was in English.... !
> >
> > I have lots of blackboxes in the text itself
> > (e.g. the first one is between "Kilston" and "an undergraduate",
> > there is a big one after 'to do about it?", two around "hyperspace", ...
> > )
> > No idea what can cause this...
> 
> This relates back to a "bug" report I made on khtmlw a few days ago.  While not
> standard ISO-8859-1, Netscape supports the following special codes:
> 
>         &#0145;   ' (left single quote)
>         &#0146;:  ' (right single quote)
>         &#0147;:  " (left double quote)
>         &#0148;   " (right double quote)
>         &#0151;   - (dash)
> 
> The one that is quite common is 146, and I wish khtmlw supported that one at least .
> . . the other ones are rarely used AFAIK.  The story you pointed to uses all these
> codes liberally.

That should be changed in the character-set support in kdelibs 
then I suppose. If I am correctly from the koffice list these are 
"typograhpical quotes" (?). The problem is that the X-fonts
don't support them. For HTML it would be reasonable to translate
them to their non-typographical counter-parts... e.g " and '.

I am not sure if this breaks other programs using the character
stuff, most notably koffice. 

Cheers,
Waldo
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