[TxMt] Feature request for "Convert Selection to Entities" command

[Allan Odgaard]

On 19/9/2006, at 22:18, Glenn Batuyong wrote:

> [...] It would be convenient if there was another conversion  
> command that would
> use the numeric ISO character in place of the named entity. For  
> example,
> instead of of converting a ' character to ' the proposed command
> would output ’ ...and – would instead be –

We can put a version in the XML bundle which only does numeric entities.

But seeing how XML has no encoding problems, would you need entities  
for anything but the special characters?

> I would assume that TextMate would need to store an updated HTML ->  
> XML
> lookup table to do this, similar to the old command.

Come again? Why would the command need to know named entities? You  
want it to first decode HTML entities, and then recode them as  
numeric entities?