- From: Dr. Olaf Hoffmann <Dr.O.Hoffmann@gmx.de>
- Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 09:41:38 +0100
- To: www-svg@w3.org
For example Opera does not want to interprete HTML entities for all versions of XHTML, therefore unfortunately the use of entities in no reliable way even for XHTML. In the last century it was a good method to be independent from the problem, that a server may send wrong encoding information about a document, because it does not analyse the encoding information in the document for XML and HTML. To provide an extension defining the entities for every XML document works pretty well, if needed. But of course if one starts to add the complete HTML list of entities, documents get pretty large. Therefore it is typically better to paste and copy such chararacters not directly available on the keyboard, because typically one has not the ability to keep in mind all unicode numbers to use them instead. This is not very friendly for authors, but there seems to be currently no alternative. And because SVG tiny 1.2 for example has no DTD anymore - and future versions of SVG may have no either, it can be difficult to define this - and even if this happens, this does not mean, that viewers care about such definitions, as can be seen with the XHTML DTDs and Opera for some versions of XHTML. Olaf
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