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  Re: Raw FAQ data format (Was: Format of FAQ items)
 
(...) Oh man, I'm HOT on "lynx -dump -force_html"!! It doesn't do an absolutely perfect perfect job, but it comes *so* close, and I'll bet it can get even closer by specifying a custom config file on the command line. (...) Agreed -- only &xxx; (...) (25 years ago, 25-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
 
  Re: Raw FAQ data format (Was: Format of FAQ items)
 
(...) If we ban HTML _elements_ from the headers, then we don't need to escape '<' and '>'. There has never been a need to escape '"'. If we want to allow numeric character references outside Latin-1 (like '&#805;') we still have to escape (...) (25 years ago, 26-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
 
  Re: Raw FAQ data format (Was: Format of FAQ items)
 
(...) Although rare, double-quote characters (") which appear inside of tags (for example inside of URLs), have to be written as &quot; -- e.g. <IMG SRC="(URL) Double-quote characters (") appearing in normal text (outside of tags) don't have to be (...) (25 years ago, 26-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
 
  Re: Raw FAQ data format (Was: Format of FAQ items)
 
(...) How is the Japanese language represented in HTML? I seem to remember seeing a page a few weeks ago that seemed like it used 2-byte ShiftJIS... I'd be shocked if they used 8-byte HTML entities. Can we imagine any possible uses for characters (...) (25 years ago, 26-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
 
  Re: Raw FAQ data format (Was: Format of FAQ items)
 
Todd: (...) It depends on the chosen encoding of the document. I would expect most people^H^H^H^H^Hrogrammers to use plain 16 bit Unicode BMP[1]. Since I am too lazy to get my computer to operate with another character encoding (than Latin-1), I (...) (25 years ago, 27-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
 
  Re: Raw FAQ data format (Was: Format of FAQ items)
 
(...) it sounds like a sneeze to me... "Ecu!" "Bless you" "Thanks" Steve (25 years ago, 27-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)

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