On 28 Jan 01 at 3:55, owner-arachne-digest@arachne wrote: >Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 03:04:51 +0200 (EET) >From: Hristo Iliev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Arachne and entity names >that all special entity names are specified. So if you want Arachne >to more compatible with specifications, I think it's good to add >support for all entity names. >Hristo (who use © in his homepage) Hristo, not everything that is specified must necessarily be useful. Probably all characters of our central European codepage (Latin II) have specifications. Nevertheless all Czech HTML code is written with 8bit code, that with not a single entity at all (apart from formatting tools). Why? Because using entities would mean almost more letters in form of entity than ordinary ones. Arachne can read these pages when she has installed the fonts for ISO-8859-2. The ISO-8859-2 contains not only East European characters, but as it is a Latin one has many characters in common with West European ISO-8859-1 table. So you would expect to be able to read any German text with this font set too. Actually you cannot, because German web authors prefer entities instead of the 8bit code. So I cannot see the letter 'a umlaut' but only a letter 'a'. While the character is supported in my font set, the entity is not. >From my point of view as a constant user of ISO-8859-2 it would be desireable to get support of some West European diacritical letters, but generally I would prefer to avoid entities at all. BTW: My suggestion for your © problem: "(c)" or insert a graphic file. Regards Christof Lange - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.volny.cz/christianpeace
