On 19 Apr 2005, at 02:36, Anders Nawroth wrote:
HTMLTidy is the only useful piece of software I've found for web page
development, and I use it to clean up my pages and get proper encoding
of my Norwenglish lines of text into numeric entities (UTF-8) where needed.
What characters needs encoding into numeric entities when using UTF-8?
I try to avoid entities with exception for & < > " '
You're right. If you're using UTF-8 you only need to encode the characters that are special in HTML/XHTML/XML (&, < and >). Using numeric entities (or even named entities) in a UTF-8 file for characters that are outside the range of ASCII is usually a waste of space.
The only time I use them is when I'm on a keyboard/system where I don't know how to enter the character, such as "å". I'd type å in this case.
PS. Hopefully the W3C i18n guru Richard is listening and will tell everyone if I'm wrong.
PPS. This is a good test to see if the WSG mail system can handle UTF-8 (assuming Apple Mail encodes the message using it).
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