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what this does

The form above is for those (like me!) who want to avoid reading This page is not Valid HTML 4.01 Strict!

Its for times when

• you get emailed swathes of text that was written in a word-processor WITHOUT being 'saved as ascii"
  and
• there are oodles of curly quotes, e-acutes, fractions, unescaped ampersands, trademark symbols and/or other illegal characters
  and
• the author wants to keep the curly quotes
  and
• you want to read This Page Is Valid HTML 4.01 Strict!

how it works

It works by looping each character throught a simple (but rather looooong) series of javascript IF statements^note and replaces the non-ascii chars with 'legal' chars from the UTF-8 charset

if (curChar == "¾") {charCode = "¾";}
if (curChar == "“") {charCode = "“";}
if (curChar == "‘") {charCode = "‘";}

an oddity

Unlike all other pages on this site that use UTF-8, this page uses the ISO-8859-1 charset

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">

Otherwise the IF statements would always return as false!

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This page was last updated: December 28 2009 11:19:06.
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