Re: wrong rendering of certain HTML entities

Just wondering... what about using UTF-8 everywhere instead of the
entities? That might work.

I of course know that it is a royal pain to copy paste UTF characters,
but it would make us independent of possible browser problems

(I usually use Richard Ishida's Uniview to copy/paste unicode
characters: http://rishida.net/scripts/uniview/)

Just a thought.

Ivan

Michael Schneider wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Before I am going to raise an issue, I would like to see whether this is
> only a problem on my computer.
> 
> Internet Explorer 7 does not seem to render the HTML 4 entites "⟨" and
> "⟩" correctly. These entites are used for displaying n-tuples in
> several of our technical documents, at least in
> 
>   * Direct Semantics
>   * RDF-Based Semantics
>   * Syntax (e.g. in section 4 on Datatype Maps)
> 
> I have added a screenshot (Direct Semantics) to show what gets rendered on
> my machine.
> 
> Firefox and Opera are working well.
> 
> For comparison, to see that this isn't a problem with our documents only,
> here is a list of HTML entities in the Web, where the same problem occurs:
> 
>   <http://www.htmlentities.com/html/entities/>
> 
> I don't know how to best cope with this problem. On the one hand, AFAIK
> these entities are official HTML entities, and so we might simply ignore the
> concrete problem with the Internet Explorer (and "hope" for IE8). On the
> other hand, it is probably not so good if the browser with the largest user
> base displays our documents wrong to some large degree. A simple (but
> somewhat hacky) solution would be to use the entities "&gt;" and "&lt;" as
> replacements.
> 
> Michael
> 
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