Folks should be using the numeric character references rather
than the entities.
How 20th century.
Aside from reserved characters like < and &, folks should not be using
entity references or numeric character references at all.
THEY SHOULD BE TYPING THE CHARACTER!
Is it all that hard to write a © or an é or pretty much any other
character you need regularly? No, it isn't. And locally rare characters
can be inserted with any of various Unicode input palettes shipped with
modern OSs and text editors.
An actual character like © is far prettier than either ¤ or ©.
Any software that still doesn't support such basic functionality in 2007
should be tossed on the recycle bin.
Of course, it still annoys me that much software that can support UTF-8
such as Eclipse still ships with broken, non-interoperable default
encodings. We need to fix that. Please report that bug wherever you find
it, and vote for it in bug trackers everywhere.
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=108668
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=333859
Also see
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-utf8/
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Elliotte Rusty Harold [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Java I/O 2nd Edition Just Published!
http://www.cafeaulait.org/books/javaio2/
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