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Doesn't translate "é" as "&eactue;" ("é" instead).

• ygra 11y ago
  It generally changes characters to numerical character references, not HTML character entities (which, incidentally, are a rather limited set of characters and pretty much useless these days – they were useful to include a few non-ASCII latin characters from Latin 1 in the mid-90s into HTML pages with browser charset detection messing things up if included directly; by now you just use Unicode and forget that a named set of entities ever existed).
  • vmorgulis 11y ago
    >...by now you just use Unicode and forget that a named set of entities ever existed... OK. When I was in PHP, I often used "htmlspeciachars()" and it does this kind of transform. That's why I tried that. http://php.net/manual/en/function.htmlspecialchars.php http://php.net/manual/en/function.htmlspecialchars.php I had some problems too with " " because it's 160 in ASCII and not a whitespace (32). Edit: 160
    • ygra 11y ago
      The non-breaking space is certainly not 256 in ASCII (ASCII only extends to 127) and not even in Latin 1 (goes up to 255) and also not in Unicode – it's 160. While you can use   in HTML you can also use   or  , both of which work in XML as well. And since numeric and hexadecimal character references are much easier to generate (you don't need a lookup table) I'd say they're a far nicer choice these days.
      • vmorgulis 11y ago
        > ... in HTML you can also use   or &#xA0 ... Yes! You're right. >... I'd say they're a far nicer choice these days. It was a long time ago for a scrapping project (garbage HTML).
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