Josh, I am also torn with this issue. I ALWAYS escape characters with their decimal values, as Vlad suggests, even if I am serving up UTF-8.
However, within code snippets (<code>), I don't make as much of an effort - for whatever reason. For instance, I always escape a dash (-) with – --- when using it in a normal sentence. However, within code snippets, I leave the dash, as is - simply because the dash has more meaning within code snippets (computer talk), than is does in plain English. For example, the code snippet of a MySQL date would be something like: 2005-06-05. I think, in order to preserve the "code essence," I don't turn it into: 2005–06–05. I think the dashes are just as important as the numbers, in this case. I could be WAY wrong - these are just my thoughts. MATTHOM matthom.com/ On 6/3/05, Joshua Street <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 23:42 -0400, Vlad Alexander wrote: > > Hi Joshua, > > > > If you are serving your content as Unicode (UTF-16 or UTF-8), then there is > > no need to use entities. If you do need to escape characters and you are > > using XHTML, then it's best to use their decimal values rather than > > entities. This makes your markup more easily parsable by XML technologies > > in your CMS (on the back-end). For example, instead of use   > > Ah, okay. The plugin is using decimal values, but WordPress also uses > UTF-8 by default -- so perhaps it is redundant. > > > >>It's just always felt dirty seeing certain characters > > >>not written in their appropriate entity codes. > > Hmmm...that's a very English centric view of the Web ;-) > > Yeah, I thought that too, but couldn't think of another way to say it! > *blushes whilst wishing he were bilingual!* > > Thanks :) > > -- > Joshua Street <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > base10solutions > ****************************************************** > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > > See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > for some hints on posting to the list & getting help > ****************************************************** > > ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
