[TxMt] Character-set/encoding in HTML documents.

Sune Foldager cryo at cyanite.org
Fri Mar 4 11:42:46 UTC 2005


On 4. mar 2005, at 12:23, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On 02.03.2005, at 16:15, Sune Foldager wrote:
>
>> First of all, there is no need to use entities in HTML documents for 
>> such things as é è ê ë etc., as it only makes them harder to read, to 
>> edit and to parse. When using utf-8, the entire utf-8 range CAN be 
>> used directly. As far as I know, the only entities needed are:
>> &  >  <
>
> It is also sometimes necessary to use " for quotation marks, as 
> in this example:
> <input value=""Right," said Fred." />
> It can also sometimes be helpful to use ' for single-quote marks.

Ah, yes indeed :-). I was a little in doubt if I had included all the 
strictly necessary ones :-p.

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