BUG Diereses and saving of these in XHTML document from Bergermann, Dorothea on 2001-02-22 (www-amaya@w3.org from January to March 2001)

From: Bergermann, Dorothea <Dorothea.Bergermann@KBR.de>
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 03:00:08 -0500 (EST)
To: "'www-amaya@w3.org'" <www-amaya@w3.org>
Message-ID: <53EBFF4ABDE5D2119717080009EF7504103241@KBRKOMM>

Hello,

I have recently upgraded to Amaya 4.2.1 and I think you did a good job,
concerning documents in English language.
I however work mostly in German language. When I load a document (XHTML
Strict), Amaya stops at the first dieresis with a parsing error. That has
good cause because the diereses are saved not XHTML - compliant as "&auml;"
and "&szlig;" but as "ä" and "ß" because previous versions of Amaya did not
support this correctly.
So I ran the finishing script converting the diereses to XHTML compliance
and opened the document again, no errors.
But as I saved the document back with Amaya, Amaya converted all XHTML-style
diereses back to German standard notation. The next opening of the selfsame
document caused above errors.
This also applies to other symbols like the copyright (c) and (R).
I use Amaya under Win NT 4.0 SP6a, but this bug seriously hampers my
working.
Are there possibilities to get back to an older version, like 3.2, the last
I was using? Could I fix it myself somehow?

Greetings,

Thea

Schwabach, Germany

Received on Thursday, 22 February 2001 03:22:31 UTC