The blog "A List Apart" has a cool article on using dashes and hyphens in HTML — those nasty –, —, and ­ characters, y’kno?
From the article:
‘for an opening single quote (Ctrl + ` ` in Word—that’s two grave accents—that character on the tilde key).’for a closing single quote (or an apostrophe) (Ctrl + '' in Word).“for an opening double quote (Ctrl + ` " in Word).”for a closing double quote (Ctrl + ' " in Word).
… and …
I’ll bet you didn’t know this about HTML—the<q>and<blockquote>elements are designed to have quote marks automatically inserted in the appropriate locations. No current browser does this by default, however, and even those that do when faced with the appropriate style sheet markup (as detailed in CSS) get it wrong, especially with curly quotes.
See the article for the full story.
