I've always thought that characters should be marked up with appropriate entity codes (for example, accented letters, etc.) in (X)HTML, rather than simply pasted in and left for character encoding and the user agent to take care of. I've written a plugin for the WordPress weblog software that does this for most characters ( http://www.joahua.com/blog/2005/06/04/curlyenc-03 - any discussion regarding this email to me offlist or post as comments, please, because it's software-related ), but I'm still not sure if it's required. It's just always felt dirty seeing certain characters not written in their appropriate entity codes.
Could someone shed any light on this? Are entity codes redundant, or should we be using them where possible? Kind Regards, Joshua Street base10solutions Website: http://www.base10solutions.com.au/ Phone: (02) 9898-0060 Fax: (02) 8572-6021 Mobile: 0425 808 469 Multimedia Development Agency ________________________________________________________________________ E-mails and any attachments sent from base10solutions are to be regarded as confidential. Please do not distribute or publish any of the contents of this e-mail without the sender’s consent. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by replying to the e-mail, and then delete the message without making copies or using it in any way. Although base10solutions takes precautions to ensure that e-mail sent from our accounts are free of viruses, we encourage recipients to undertake their own virus scan on each e-mail before opening, as base10solutions accepts no responsibility for loss or damage caused by the contents of this e-mail. ________________________________________________________________________ ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
