Sybren Stuvel wrote: > Duncan Booth enlightened us with: >> Don't bother using named entities. If you encode your unicode as >> ascii replacing all non-ascii characters with the xml entity >> reference then your pages will display fine whatever encoding is >> specified in the HTTP headers. > > Which means OP can't use Unicode/UTF-8 entity references, since that's > not specified in the HTTP header. > That doesn't matter, character references are not affected by the network encoding.
>From http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/charset.html#h-5.3.1 > 5.3.1 Numeric character references > > Numeric character references specify the code position of a character > in the document character set. The character references use the *document character set*, which is independant of the character encoding used for network transmission. This is defined for HTML as ISO10646, and (section 5.1) "The character set defined in [ISO10646] is character-by-character equivalent to Unicode ([UNICODE])". -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
