[whatwg] Entity parsing

The difference between I.2 and I.3 is that I.2 is in English and I.3 is in
French.  Internet Explorer apparently chose to support English natively
while SGML preferred remaining language-agnostic.
Chris

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[mailto:whatwg-bounces at lists.whatwg.org] On Behalf Of Oistein E. Andersen
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Subject: Re: [whatwg] Entity parsing

On 25 Jun 2007, at 8:28AM, Ian Hickson wrote:

    2) only IE expands
            fianc&eacutee (390), caf&eacutes (1,460), na&iumlve (716)
                IE (correct): fianc?e, caf?s, naive
                SGML (incorrect): fianc&eacutee, caf&eacutes, na&iumlve

    3) neither expands
            &oeliguvre (719), c&oeligur (3,720)
                both (incorrect): &oeliguvre, c&oeligur
                intended: ouvre, cour


It is also interesting to notice that reasonably common words belonging to
class
I.2), which are handled by IE, are apparently no more frequent than words
from I.3),
which no (popular) current browser handles correctly.

I am looking forward to seeing more extensive research on this.

-- 
Oistein E. Andersen

Received on Monday, 25 June 2007 23:49:08 UTC