- From: Vincent Quint <Vincent.Quint@inrialpes.fr>
- Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 12:22:35 -0500 (EST)
- To: Maurizio Codogno <puntomaupunto@tin.it>
- Cc: veith.risak@chello.at, www-amaya@w3.org, Vincent.Quint@inrialpes.fr
Good guess, Mauricio. That's exactly what happens, and that's exactly the rationale. Vincent. Maurizio Codogno wrote: > > At 16:40 24/11/2001 +0100, you wrote: > > >But the strange thing is: > > > >- I wrote the special characters ä, ö, ü, ... in the window source view as > >ä ö ... > >than stored them. (Check with emacs gave: codes ok) > >Than exited Amaya > >Reopened Amaya and reloaded document. > >??? But then the codes were gone and only ä, ö, ü appeared. > > Ok, now this is clear. > My personal opinion is that Amaya automagically translates entities in > ISO-Latin-1 > characters. From its point of view, it makes sense: as you know, the standard > says that HTML has ISO-8859-1 as its default coding, and XML is even more > liberal. If Amaya adds the charset at the beginning of the file, there is no > problem for interoperability, and using ä, ö, ü improves readability of the > text. > > I am sending this to the list in Cc:, so that the developers may comment on my > guess! > > tschuess, .mau. > >
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