Special Character Codes for Web Pages

Directional Quotation Marks
Name	Straight Quote equivalent	Code	Appearance to you	Overall Assessment
Left Double	"	“	“	HTML standard, but too badly implemented to use for a while yet. For example, it does not work in Netscape 4.73 for Windows or NCSA Mosaic 3.0 for Windows.
Left Double	"		“	Windows only?
Left Double	"	“	“	This is ISO-8879 (is it handled better than #147?): It does not work in NCSA Mosaic 3.0 for Windows.

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