Merci for pointing out how it works, but I guess I can't see the value in a converter which can't see that it has a numeric as input and do the right thing. Amp is just wrong as an output. So: request for improvement: convert commands examine their input to respond intelligently to requests to return a named entity when given a raw character or an already encoded numeric.

Juan Carlos Anorga juananorga@gmail.com

If you are trying to get £ you first need to "Decode numeric entities" and then "Convert to named entity"

On Nov 11, 2005, at 1:11 PM, Timothy Bates wrote:

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Doing "Convert to named entity" on "£" gives "&" when I want "&pound"

Then what if you wanted to convert a & to '&'?

-- Sune.

Hmm. "&" doesn't match any numeric or named entity, so ...

if the selection is "&" and the user chooses the command "convert to named entity" it should still be upconverted to &

A simple rule would be

if ( regexp("&.{3,4};", str) ) { //string looks like a valid numeric entity convertNumericToNamedEntity(str); else //string looks like plain text convertCharToNamedEntity(str); }

On 12/11/2005, at 9:04 AM, Sune Foldager wrote:

On 11/11/2005, at 22.46, Timothy Bates wrote:

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Merci for pointing out how it works, but I guess I can't see the value in a converter which can't see that it has a numeric as input and do the right thing. Amp is just wrong as an output.

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