Re: bug: conversion of extended charecters from Daniel Biddle on 2000-08-04 (html-tidy@w3.org from July to September 2000)

From: Daniel Biddle <deltab@osian.net>
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 03:35:17 +0000 (UTC)
To: html-tidy@w3.org
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0008040326290.20908-100000@charizard.blazingfast.net>

On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, skark wrote:

> <P>&eacute;</P>
> 
> is covererted to 
> <p>Ã©</p>

That's the UTF-8 form of 'é'. You didn't say what options you used, but
this is the expected behaviour with -utf8. To force 'é' to be encoded as
'&eacute;' use -ascii, and to get 'é' use -latin1.

hope this helps,
-- 
Daniel Biddle <deltab@osian.net>

Received on Thursday, 3 August 2000 23:37:31 UTC