On Aug 12, 2007, at 4:59 AM, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote:
I wish there was a way to convert characters to decimal numeric character references, since these have better browser support and equivalents for all Unicode characters not just some common ones. At the moment I use:
http://people.w3.org/rishida/scripts/uniview/conversion.php
But it would be nice to have an integrated tool.
Creating such a tool wouldn't be much work at all, if someone makes a better set of entity tools they can definitely be included in the bundle.
The real reason I think no one has bothered is nowadays it's just simpler to use UTF-8 documents and just type the actual characters. I haven't actually used entities for webpages in years (except for &<> of course). Not really any reason to anymore.:)
In saying this I'm sure there are still languages where using some odd encoding is the standard, so couldn't hurt to have the tools improved.