Geoff Hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Mike Holderness wrote: >> Some HTML 4.1 entities (∥, £...) will be included >> in excerpts as singly characters and therefore won't display >> in Opera or Mozilla. > >At the moment, the code can deal with some HTML entities, but as no one >has stepped forward to deal with some of the newer standards, esp. in >regards to entities, there are undoubtedly a great deal of problems like >this.
Errr... maybe next month? (This month's new language looks set to be Python.) >> Will others (“ etc) continue to be included in >> excerpts as &ldquo; (& a m p ; l d q u o ;)? > >Any HTML entity that is not part of the recognized list will show this >bug. If you have a suggestion as to which entities should be transformed >into the appropriate localized character set (i.e. accents) and which >should be ignored, please let us know or point us to an appropriate URL. I'll be back. Somewhere I have a table of those I've needed (in Linotron 340 typesetter format :-) Excuse me for clarifying my thoughts by writing messages, but: it seems that there are two questions: 1) Updating the table of entities to translate to characters 2) Whether or not to translate characters outside the 7-bit gamut back to &entity; references when outputting excerpts, for maximum compatibility with browser quirks. I can see where (1) done The Right Way could lead off into infinite work, since TRW would seem to be the ongoing W3C discussion of fully-normali?ed Unicode (e.g., having translated "e´" to two Unicode characters, then translate it to the single character represented by "é"). [see http://www.w3.org/TR/charmod/ - forgive me if there's a previous discussion here not revealed by a search for "normal* Unicode"] But a reasonable patch should be a bookkeeping exercise that someone like me can handle. Given time. (2) raises, er, a philosophical question... >I (for one) didn't know that there even was an HTML 4.1 standard. Have a >URL? Sorry, my thinko for 4.01. Mike ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ htdig-general mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, send a message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with a subject of unsubscribe FAQ: http://htdig.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html
