Re: incorrect use of a double dash on the homepage
Gerfried Fuchs:
> Unfortunately browsers don't really support entities in the title,
> at least not last time this was brought up and tested. Not sure if
> this has changed and is still an issue with the browser versions in
> etch.
It's not necessarily the entity per se, that should be supported in
most browsers published this side of year 2000. The problem is mainly
that the title bar is displayed by the window manager, and X11 window
managers have traditionally not been very good at displaying characters
from outside the current locale.
With more and more locales switching to a Unicode-based encoding
(mostly UTF-8), that should not be a big problem any longer, though.
> Personally I'm on lenny and tested it with current packages of
> iceweasel, epiphany-gecko, epiphany-webkit, konqueror, kazehakase,
> opera, w3m (does use the utf8 character), lynx (replaces it with --).
To do a "proper" test, you should also test it with a myriad of window
managers under a multitude of user locales. :-)
> Out of curiosity, can someone test it on internet explorer?
IE on an NT-based system usually works fine, on a 9x-based system
browsers have the same Unicode problem as X11 browsers have.
Traditionally Windows browsers show the URL in the title bar when they
cannot display the title.
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\\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/
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