In our previous episode, Graeme Geldenhuys said: > In researching how to type Unicode characters on different platforms, > I came across an interesting argument regarding Unicode characters and > HTML. The argument might apply to fpdoc documentation (xml) files as > well?hence the reason for this post. > > With W3C embracing UTF-8 as the de facto standard for HTML pages, do > we still need to escape characters like ampersand [' U+2019] to > [&] etc. Unicode has been around for some time now, so surely all > half-decent software should be able to read and display the actual > character correctly by now (sensitive subject for FPC and Delphi at > the moment), instead of having to bother with the escaped version.
Yes, since that is not related to encoding, but because HTML uses & as a control character. > How does this argument fit with XML which also uses UTF-8 as the de > facto standard encoding. And seeing that fpdoc uses XML for the > documentation files, can I use the actual Unicode characters in my > fpdoc documentation, or must I still stick with the?what now seems to > be outdated?escaped method? Depends. Is & a steering character in all of XML, or only the xhtml like standards? _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
