From: John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@...>
Date: 2007-04-12T22:09:01+09:00
Subject: Re: HTML entites in ClothRed: yay or nay?

All HTML can be coded in ASCII, as can XML and XHTML
However, that is simply the markup itself.
Do not forgo the encoding.
Convert everything to UTF-8
There is no reason to use anything else.
Visit:
http://www.unicode.org/charts/

http://www.unicode.org/

On Apr 12, 2007, at 9:46 PM, Phillip Gawlowski 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.
>
>