Re: Translation of numeric entities from Bjoern Hoehrmann on 2003-04-07 (html-tidy@w3.org from April to June 2003)

From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 06:10:13 +0200
To: "Graham Adcock" <graham@intology.com.au>
Cc: <html-tidy@w3.org>
Message-ID: <3ea9f994.172874019@smtp.bjoern.hoehrmann.de>

* Graham Adcock wrote:
>Does anyone know whether I can stop Tidy from translating numeric entities
>into actual characters?

Depends...

>For example, &#39; translates into an apostrophe
>rather than retaining the &#39;   &#247; to a +  etc.

Tidy converts &#247; to &divide; by default. Using -n it will output
&#247;, using e.g. -latin1 Tidy will output ÷.

Received on Monday, 7 April 2003 00:10:45 UTC