On 06/09/2003, at 12:04, André Malo wrote:
* Tetsuya Kitahata wrote:
Other language resource files are using "Character Mnemonic Entities",
Just to clarify, what we're talking about:
&#number; or &#xhexnumber; are "character references", i.e. they refer to a
particular code point of the Unicode charset.
&somename; are generic entities, some of them are predefined as character
references. We use the W3C character entity definitions for easier work and
some own for better readability.
Yep, and the present error doc typemaps for example, are using them only to replace single characters (e.g. the german umlauts). I don't think it makes any sense to write a translated doc/typemap exclusively with them (readability, size, old and broken clients?).
it seems. I think that japanese translations should follow that principle.
That's basically the translator's decision. Though I'd suggest not to use
them, because they blow up the xml source 2 - 4 times (or more). Note that
it's only a *source* issue. Character references are resolved during the
source parsing stage and are inserted as raw iso-2022-jp into the transformed
result. I'm wondering a bit why you want to make such an effort. I can
imagine (but I don't know) that's even more simple and efficient to type in
the characters (or symbols, however) directly.
I'm clearly with nd here; I can't see any reason why someone would want to only use character entities in a XML source which is transformed anyway and I would strongly suggest to *not* use them exclusively in the error doc typemaps because of the increased size (they are not transformed).
Fortunately, PHP.exe will convert japanese characters into "Character Mnemonic Entities" easily equivalent to them, it seems.
Doh. Same question as Kess. PHP.exe? What do you want to do?
I think Tetsuya wants to express that one can use a php script to transform text written in iso-2022-jp encoded form into character entities and vice versa, right Tetsuya?
...just my 0.02 €uro
Cheers, Erik
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