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Is there a difference between these? Is one better-supported than the other?
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Is there a difference between these? Is one better-supported than the other?
SGML parsers (or XML parsers in the case of XHTML) can handle
—without having to process the DTD (which doesn’t matter to browsers as they just slurp tag soup), while—is easier for humans to read and write in the source code.Personally, I would stick to a literal em-dash and ensure that my character encoding settings were consistent.