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Re: Raw FAQ data format (Was: Format of FAQ items)
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lugnet.faq
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Mon, 26 Apr 1999 16:58:19 GMT
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Todd Lehman (lehman@javanet.com) wrote:
> In lugnet.faq, jsproat@geocities.com (Sproaticus) writes:
> Agreed -- only &xxx; entities ought to be allowed in the headers, IMO...
> And if the content charset is Latin-1 instead of pure 7-bit ASCII, then this
> can be further reduced to < > " &.
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 '̥') we still have to escape ampersands.
[...]
> and *perhaps* the double-quote character should be forced to be written as
> an entity as well:
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> " => "
Why?
> But apart from those, wouldn't it simplify editing a ton (and make it much
> much safer) if characters above 128 were just written directly in their
> Latin-1 encoding, i.e.--?
Yes.
Play well,
Jacob
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 | | Re: Raw FAQ data format (Was: Format of FAQ items)
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| (...) Although rare, double-quote characters (") which appear inside of tags (for example inside of URLs), have to be written as " -- e.g. <IMG SRC="(URL) Double-quote characters (") appearing in normal text (outside of tags) don't have to be (...) (26 years ago, 26-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
| | | Re: Raw FAQ data format (Was: Format of FAQ items)
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| (...) 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 (...) (26 years ago, 26-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: Raw FAQ data format (Was: Format of FAQ items)
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| (...) 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; (...) (26 years ago, 25-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
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