[SVN] snippets encoding

[Allan Odgaard]

On Feb 25, 2005, at 16:53, cubiq at cubiq.org wrote:

> I found really helpful to have a set of snippets for HTML that 
> automatically translate accented and "strange" characters (eg: à [a 
> grave]) to its corresponding html entity. So à+TAB -> à
>
> This is essential for european languages. May I add the snippet to the 
> repository?

How about instead do a macro e.g. on ctrl-shift-tab that selects the 
previous character and uses the “HTML -> As Named Entities” command? 
That way you won't need a special snippet per character (but instead a 
special key stroke to invoke the expansion).

Though in the future the “Input Pattern” activation method will allow 
you to set the activation of such macro to e.g. “[\xA0-\xFF]\t”, which 
means an 8 bit character followed by tab, basically giving the same 
behavior as if you had a snippet for each 8 bit character.

> What I noted is that the snippet is encoded as UTF-8 and I guess the 
> "à" character shouldn't be compatible with UTF-8... The snippets work 
> flawlessy, but isn't it semantically incorrect to place those 
> characters in the plist? Should we change the encoding?

There should be no problems with this whatsoever :)