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HTML Validating .. how to use "special" charachters?
Hi,

I'm trying to make one of our sites XHTML 1.0 compitent. I'm running it through w3.org's validator, but its giving me errors :(

My header lines are;

Code:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

... and then alongside the other <meta> tags;

Code:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-gb" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" />

..and then inside the "body" tag;

Code:
The Firm&#146;s

for some reason, although &#146; should equate to a ' , the validator is going mad about it.

Is there an easy way around this? The whole reason we are escaping every non-standard (a-z or 0-9) into its HTML value.

TIA

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk
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Thread HTML Validating .. how to use "special" charachters? Andy 8546 Mar 7, 2005, 7:49 AM
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