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Re: Automatic Filter for Accented Characters ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (lilley)
Mon Jun 19 05:58:04 1995
From: lilley <lilley@afs.mcc.ac.uk>
To: jftm@di.ufpe.br (Jose Fernando Tepedino Martins)
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1995 10:53:10 +0100 (BST)
Cc: www-talk@www10.w3.org
In-Reply-To: <9506182110.AA20081@di.ufpe.br> from "Jose Fernando Tepedino Martins" at Jun 18, 95 06:10:26 pm
Jose Fernando Tepedino Martins wrote [about named entities]:
> I've been using for a long time files with characters with accents
> (ISO 8859 standard) in most of my editing works (vi, textedit, latex).
> I have now a lot of documents with accented characters, and I love
> them, because they make the text much more readable than using any other
> codification. I've been wondering if I really should run a transformation
> program for each HTML file I write before putting it in the WWW Server
> public area.
No. (Provided you mean 8859-1). These characters are entirely legal.
You _might_ need such a filter if you want to send these HTML documents
via a medium that may not be 8-bit clean, such as email.
But for serving via HTTP, leave them as they are. The named entities
such as é (that's <tt>&eacute;</tt> for people reading
hypermail archives!) are an additional method, for those people whose
keyboards or editors do not permit entering the characters directly.
--
Chris Lilley, Technical Author
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