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In lugnet.off-topic.test, Todd Lehman writes:
> Nope, there aren't any HTML entities (numeric or non-numeric) that are
> handled. By design, if you type '&', it's *always* converted to '&'
> by the web display interface, meaning that if you type 'æ' in your
> article, then the HTML generated is 'æ' -- which is exactly how
> it should be, because netnews articles are supposed to be plaintext, not
> HTML.
>
> So, for news articles, just use the plain raw 8-bit ISO-8859-1 encoding:
>
> Don't write Do write
> ----------- --------
> æ æ
> ø ø
> ® ®
> £ £
>
> Then it will come out correctly. For example, if you write 'æ' in your news
> article, then it will be sent to newsreaders as 'æ' and to web browsers as
> 'æ' (so that it may display properly as 'æ'). But if you accidentally
> write 'æ' in your news article, then it will be sent to your newsreader
> as 'æ' but to your web browser as 'æ' in order that it may
> display exactly properly as you wrote it, e.g., 'æ'.
>
> Again, this is by design. It would be a bug not to convert '&' to '&',
> just as it would be a bug not to convert '<' to '<', etc...
>
> --Todd
Hmm.... maybe it's something to do with how you're parsing web-input? I'm using
the web interface to enter messages, and I'm typing:
& # 1 6 3 ;
(but without the spaces) and it comes out as a single character (the pound
sign: "£") when I view the message. Also, it comes out as the same single
character when I click on "view raw message". When I type:
& p o u n d ;
(without the spaces) it just comes out as "£", it doesnt come out as the
pound sign. So I'm thinking that maybe what happens is when you read in the
web-input, you read it in as a single character? The 'traditional' "ReadParse"
routine in 'cgi-lib.pl' takes care of it nicely, but I don't know about other
stuff... But the only thing I can think of is that the $ENV{'QUERY_STRING'} is
being parsed as just 1 character for numeric entities... I've actually used
this a couple times for footnotes†... comes in handy :)
DaveE
† O'Reilly says the conformence on symbols like this is "!!!", though...
watch out!
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