[SVN] snippets encoding

[Kevin Ballard]

I agree. Personally, when I use UTF-8 in my web pages, I simply put a 
meta tag declaring the page to be UTF-8 and then don't bother with 
entities. The only entities that I bother using are &, ", and 
 

On Mar 1, 2005, at 9:03 AM, Allan Odgaard wrote:

> On Mar 1, 2005, at 8:49, cubiq at cubiq.org wrote:
>
>> If I am in UFT-8 I'd love to have all my "à" automatically translated 
>> into "à"
>
> If all your special characters are encoded as entities, then you're 
> not really in utf-8, you're in ASCII.
>
>> am I saying non senses?
>
> Well, I'm thinking if something like this should happen, it should be 
> in the form of import/export hooks. But I wonder 1) why do you think 
> that browsers can't handle utf-8 w/o the use of entities? and 2) if 
> you really do not trust browsers, wouldn't it be easier just to keep 
> everything in utf-8 and have either the server convert your pages to 
> entities when they are served, or a script when you export/upload a 
> site?

-- 
Kevin Ballard
kevin at sb.org
http://www.tildesoft.com
http://kevin.sb.org
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