Re: é Conversion bug from Bjoern Hoehrmann on 2001-04-18 (html-tidy@w3.org from April to June 2001)

From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 22:40:53 +0200
To: hemmerling@gmx.net
Cc: html-tidy@w3.org
Message-ID: <srtrdtkovgfveu7q0al1knkcojopahakhh@4ax.com>

* Rolf Hemmerling wrote:
>é Conversion bug
>
>é = french e with "accent /", as MSDOS DOS-BOX code,
>is translated by tidy (of 4th August 2000 ) to
>
>&sbquo;
>
>instead to
>&eacute;
>which is the right syntax for NC 4.76 to display a é !

Tidy assumes Windows-1251 as character encoding where 0x82 indeed is
&sbquo;

>Btw, german Umlaute (äöüßÖÄÜ) are translated properly !

I don't know why this works, 'ö' should be translated to &rdquo;
according to the above mentioned assumption. 
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