From: James Britt <jamesUNDERBARb@...>
Date: 2004-12-21T10:21:05+09:00
Subject: Re: RDoc Accents

Dave Thomas wrote:
> 
> On Dec 19, 2004, at 19:47, James Britt wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> 
> Why the assumption that RDoc generates just HTML?
> 
> Just type the characters you want, as you want them, and make sure the 
> character set is set correctly.

What is the syntax for setting the charset in the source code?

I suspect most people use RDoc to generate HTML docs for other people's 
source, and will not know to use specific command line switches.

(Does rubygems have a way for the packager to specify rdoc command-line 
args?)


Thanks,


James