From: Adriano Ferreira <a.r.ferreira@...>
Date: 2007-04-12T22:07:16+09:00
Subject: Re: HTML entites in ClothRed: yay or nay?

It seems like you need HTMLEntities
(http://htmlentities.rubyforge.org/) which will add a dependency on
your distribution (but better than repeating the same effort others
did).

I think that dependency may be made optional and ClothRed could throw
an exception when asked to decode HTML entities and could not find
that module. I don't know if this is acceptable to you.

From the docs, code like

     require 'htmlentities'
     coder = HTMLEntities.new
     string = "&eacute;lan"
     coder.decode(string) # => "�lan"

take your HTML with entities into UTF-8 characters if I understood correctly.

Cheers,
Adriano Ferreira.

On 4/12/07, Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@googlemail.com> wrote:
> In preparation of release 0.3.0 (hopefully later today ;), I'm
> wondering: Should I translated HTML entities into human-readable format?
> My hunch is yes, as that's the point of Textile.
>
> So, I'm at a bit of a loss: I've never, ever worked with character
> encodings (I don't even know how to check the encoding on Linux or Windows).
>
> So, my question is, how do I replace the HTML entities with ISO-8859-1
> characters?
>
> The trouble is, that the character encodings don't seem to be taken off
> of UTF-8 or something else that I can just escape, or can I?
>
> Meanwhile, I'm digging through the RDoc documentation. Hopefully, I can
> find something there.
>
> --
> Phillip "CynicalRyan" Gawlowski
> http://cynicalryan.110mb.com/
> http://clothred.rubyforge.org
>
> Rule of Open-Source Programming #13:
>
> Your first release can always be improved upon.
>
>
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