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Excellent idea! Now if we could only convince w3C that the entire Unicode Symbol Set deserves names and not hex or octal then I'd be very happy indeed ♞ s

• TazeTSchnitzel 14y ago
  No, I don't think it's a problem. I believe HTML only had symbol names because of incompatible character sets, allowing Unicode characters in ASCII and other encodings. But modern text editors and sites can use Unicode symbols just fine, why avoid them?
  • toyg 14y ago
    You're so right, it hurts. Named entities are a hack from the past. Unicode does a better job at classifying the zillions of character across the world than any html-monkey ever will.
    • TazeTSchnitzel 14y ago
      A hack, but a wonderful one. Thanks to it, even latin-1 and us-ascii sites can use Unicode characters, even from user submitted content. Sure, it isn't as efficient as UTF-8, but it does the job.
• Yaggo 14y ago
  You can use the actual unicode symbol (on Mac, Edit -> Special characters) in html/css, no need for hex code. It isn't 1996 anymore.