[whatwg] Entity parsing from Ian Hickson on 2007-06-22 (public-whatwg-archive@w3.org from June 2007)

From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 09:55:43 +0000 (UTC)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706220955170.14519@dhalsim.dreamhost.com>

On Fri, 22 Jun 2007, Kristof Zelechovski wrote:
>
> A dieresis is not an umlaut so I have to bite my tongue each time I 
> write or read nonsense like &iuml;.  It feels like lying.  Umlaut means 
> "mixed", a dieresis means "standalone".  Those are very different 
> things, and "I" can never gets mixed so there is no ambigu?ty.  Since 
> "umlaut" is borrowed from German, I can see no problem in borrowing 
> "tr?ma" from French.  I personally prefer "&itrema;" to "&idier;" 
> because of readability, but I would not insist on that.

There are plenty of entity names that are suboptimal. I wouldn't lose too 
much sleep over it.

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Things that are impossible just take longer.   `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

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