In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Jon Ribbens wrote: > >> This has nothing to do with character encodings. > > it has *everything* to do with encoding of existing data into HTML so it > can be safely transported to, and recreated by, an HTML-aware client. > > does the word "information set" mean anything to you?
The special characters we're talking about escaping--ampersand, less-than, single-quote, double-quote--are part of the basic syntax of XML and HTML. They are information-set-independent. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list