Author: matthiasbecker1967

Description:
Article names are getting part of the title of the HTML concerned using the name
within <title>Any article's name - Wikipedia the free encyclopedy</title>. If
the article name includes an endash or emdash the problem occurs.

The problem effects on systems from W95/98 until XP when IE 6 is used and to my
knowledge even if all the latest SPs are installed, both for IE and XP. IE 6 by
default is saving a HTML file by using the HTML page's title. While XP has no
problem with saving the dash as a dash, since ALT+0150 or ALT+0151 are valide
characters for naming files in Windows systems, such a file can't be reopened in
IE 6 without loosing styles and graphics because the browser doesn't recognise
the sub-directory in which css and pics are stored. (FYI, IE 5 would fail to
open the file in total).

The issue doesn't occur with IE 7 where certainly due to an internal
Microsoft-propriety solution the browser is capable to deal with the problem.
However, IE 7 isn't a true alternative, since it isn't available (yet) in many
languages, e.g. Czech, Slovakian, Hungarian and several other CE languages or
can't be installed on many systems used in those countries (systems older than
XP are still widespreaded in Eastern Europe).

Solution: Making sure that endash or emdash isn't used as a character in the
text string between the tags <title> and </title>, either by a manual of style
or better by a software feature. Clearly this has to override typographical
usancies, mainly in US or British English.

Note: It is believed that the left and right single quotes (but not the
abstroph) does cause the same problem. If so it should be part of the same
problem solution.

Version: unspecified
Severity: normal
OS: Windows XP
Platform: PC