[TxMt] Re: POLL: HTML CodeSense?

[Michael Sheets]

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.