- From: Elizabeth J. Pyatt <ejp10@psu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:19:56 -0400
- To: "Harry Loots" <harry.loots@ieee.org>, w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
- Cc: christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be
> The answer is to >specify character set; then also do your audience a favour and convert >non-ASCII characters, including the four mentioned above to entities (HTML-Kit >and other programes will do this on your behalf). That way you can be certain >that the end user see the quote and the pound symbol where intended. > Sorry to jump in again, but entity codes are NOT required or always desirable. Most pages in Cyrillic, Arabic, Hebrew are not in entity codes but properly encoded text (often Unicode these days). That is if you go to a Hebrew language Website, and click View Source, you will see Hebrew characters in the HTML, not a series of entity codes. The pages tare encoded meaning they tell your browser what kind of encoding to use (all pages, even English ones should do that). At this stage, only extremely ancient browsers (e.g. Netscape 4.7, IE 5 for Mac) really have problems with raw Unicode text. If your technology requires entity codes, then use them - but if not, then I would recommend avoing them these days. My extra 2 cents. Elizabeth -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Elizabeth J. Pyatt, Ph.D. Instructional Designer Education Technology Services, TLT/ITS Penn State University ejp10@psu.edu, (814) 865-0805 or (814) 865-2030 (Main Office) 210 Rider Building (formerly Rider II) 227 W. Beaver Avenue State College, PA 16801-4819 http://www.personal.psu.edu/ejp10/psu http://tlt.psu.edu
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