<blockquote>I have seen sometimes in text intended to be presented on the screen certain HTML codes in the place of punctuation; for example, &amp;#39 for apostrophe, &amp;#44 for comma and &amp;#46 for period. I have not been able to discover any control coding for Firefox that will correct these misrepresentations.</blockquote> Hi Jim, Firefox should convert those when it displays the document. Are you working with the source in a different application, or does Firefox think the page is plain text instead of HTML?

See also: *https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_XML_and_HTML_character_entity_references