From: James Britt <jamesUNDERBARb@...>
Date: 2004-12-20T10:47:42+09:00
Subject: Re: RDoc Accents

James Edward Gray II wrote:
> On Dec 19, 2004, at 5:53 PM, James Britt wrote:
> 
>> Aredridel wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 08:20:44 +0900, James Edward Gray II
>>> <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I need to include an accented e in my rdoc documentation.  &eacute;
>>>> does not work.  Any suggestions?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> &#233;
>>
>> http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html3/latin1.html
> 
> 
> That's equivalent to &eacute; and it still doesn't work.  ;)

Sort of, but not exactly ...

 >  Thanks
> though.



I just did a little test, though, and it appears that rdoc munges the 
text. &233;  becomes &amp;233; in the output html, so the desired 
character never appears.

So one needs to tell Rdoc to not escape entity references.


James