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- Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 06:38:50 +0000
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http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=6742 --- Comment #6 from Nick Levinson <Nick_Levinson@yahoo.com> 2009-03-30 06:38:50 --- A real-life example came up. A person posted a hypothetical tag for discussion purposes. The post was in the W3C Bugzilla (at Bug 6746 Comment #5), which then emailed me with the text of the post. The posted string included a character entity, complete with ampersand and semicolon. When it arrived at my Yahoo email inbox, the entity had become a letter. I don't know whether the translation occurred during the Bugzilla's preparing the email to me or during Yahoo's presenting of the email to me, or elsewhere, but nothing in the email alerted me that it should not have translated because the original text was already in entity form. Arguably, this isn't the best real-life example possible because it's not restoring to the original medium, such as a Web page formed from a submitter's comment after CGI acceptance, but the effect occurred in an email from a Web page and that's close enough. Attached hereto is a picture of the Yahoo result (a cropped PNG screenshot enlarged 4-fold without interpolation in Gimp 2.2.7, saved as PNG, and named about-tag.png). Compare the tag from this email to the one in the bug report comment. -- Nick -- Configure bugmail: http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug.
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