Problem with special char ’

**paulcj2** · Aug 12, 2003 07:12

W3C code validator
http://validator.w3.org/

chokes on ’ on one page:
http://kripalu.sitepoint.com.au/about/9/
but not on another:
http://kripalu.sitepoint.com.au/about/4/

On the first page listed above I get the error message:
Line 193, column 50: reference to non-SGML character (explain...). <p>When you come to Kripalu for a program you’ll have more than anIf ’ is non-SGML, why does it work on one page, but not on another?What is the alternative, if it is non-SGML?I am using:<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

**Technosailor** · Aug 12, 2003 07:19

Why not use the Decimal code
& # 3 9 ;

No spaces...

**xhtmlcoder** · Aug 13, 2003 08:09

That hexadecimal value that may have been illegal because it is seen as a "control character" http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0080.pdf, thus the validator complains and it's basically down to byte value conversion – remember SGML is supposed to be platform independent.