- From: Irene VATTON <vatton@inrialpes.fr>
- Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 07:13:05 +0100
- To: Maurizio Codogno <puntomaupunto@tin.it>
- Cc: www-amaya@w3.org
> 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. Yes. If the document was exported with the charset us-ascii these characters would be exported as entities. > I am sending this to the list in Cc:, so that the developers may comment on my > guess! > > tschuess, .mau. > >
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