Re: Problem with unicode and Tidy

2011-03-10 Thread LuKreme
On 9-Mar-2011, at 18:17, Charlie Garrison wrote: Bottom line, based on my testing (I'd still like to find some clear documentation), named entities are OK for html5 documents served as text/html (with no ?xml? stanza) and named entities are NOT OK for documents served as application/xhtml

Re: Problem with unicode and Tidy

2011-03-09 Thread Watts Martin
On Mar 7, 7:23 pm, Alex Satrapa gr...@goldweb.com.au wrote: Apart from a small set, HTML 5 deprecates named entities in favour of Unicode numerical entities, expressed in decimal. That is, rather than ‘ldquo;’ or ‘#x201c;’ use ‘#8220;’. I don’t follow the HTML5 community, so I’m not aware

Re: Problem with unicode and Tidy

2011-03-09 Thread Charlie Garrison
Good afternoon, On 9/03/11 at 3:27 PM -0800, Watts Martin lay...@gmail.com wrote: On Mar 7, 7:23 pm, Alex Satrapa gr...@goldweb.com.au wrote: Apart from a small set, HTML 5 deprecates named entities in favour of Unicode numerical entities, expressed in decimal. That is, rather than ‘ldquo;’

Re: Problem with unicode and Tidy

2011-03-07 Thread Kim Mosley
)? Thanks, Kim On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 10:11 PM, Robert A. Rosenberg rar...@banet.net wrote: At 08:35 AM -0800 on 03/04/2011, Kim Mosley wrote about Problem with unicode and Tidy: When I use Tidy (either clean or reflow) the unicode is converted to an em dash... which then is displayed

Re: Problem with unicode and Tidy

2011-03-07 Thread Kim Mosley
On Mar 7, 2011, at 9:19 AM, Rich Siegel wrote: On Monday, March 7, 2011, Kim Mosley mrkimmos...@gmail.com wrote: What I'd like is for the unicodes to be let alone when I use Tidy. It seems that is the only way for browsers to display the right character. Is there a way to use Tidy, and not

Re: Problem with unicode and Tidy

2011-03-07 Thread Alex Satrapa
On 08/03/2011, at 02:20 , Kim Mosley wrote: When I do Tidy the #8211; is replaced by an en dash, which sometimes displays correctly and sometimes doesn't. I want to keep #8211; as it is. How do I do that with Tidy? Interestingly enough, when I run your sample through Tidy, it replaces the

Re: Problem with unicode and Tidy

2011-03-07 Thread LuKreme
On Mar 7, 2011, at 8:20, Kim Mosley mrkimmos...@gmail.com wrote: When I do Tidy the #8211; is replaced by an en dash, which sometimes displays correctly and sometimes doesn't. I want to keep #8211; as it is. How do I do that with Tidy? Short answer: you don't. Longer answer: you don't need

Re: Problem with unicode and Tidy

2011-03-07 Thread Doug McNutt
At 11:18 +1100 3/8/11, Alex Satrapa wrote: If someone can give me an example of where curly quotes are bad I'll stop using them - perhaps there is a popular screen reader used by blind people that chokes on Unicode punctuation. There is nothing like an overzealous email client that defaults to

Re: Problem with unicode and Tidy

2011-03-07 Thread Charlie Garrison
Good afternoon, On 7/03/11 at 9:44 PM -0700, LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote: On Mar 7, 2011, at 17:56, Doug McNutt dougl...@macnauchtan.com wrote: We are on the verge of HTML-5. Does any one know if such things as xxx; are going to get deprecated in favor of unicode? Entities are not

Re: Problem with unicode and Tidy

2011-03-07 Thread LuKreme
On Mar 7, 2011, at 22:37, Charlie Garrison garri...@zeta.org.au wrote: This page indicates there are only 5 *named* entities which are still valid: http://www.html-5.com/cheat-sheet/html-character-codes.html Ah, I had not seen that. Of course with HTML5 spec still being draft, things

Re: Problem with unicode and Tidy

2011-03-06 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 08:35 AM -0800 on 03/04/2011, Kim Mosley wrote about Problem with unicode and Tidy: When I use Tidy (either clean or reflow) the unicode is converted to an em dash... which then is displayed as trash in Safari. Please help! I need to use Tidy for formatting... but I don't want it to change

Problem with unicode and Tidy

2011-03-04 Thread Kim Mosley
When I use Tidy (either clean or reflow) the unicode is converted to an em dash... which then is displayed as trash in Safari. Please help! I need to use Tidy for formatting... but I don't want it to change these. Winedale Spring Festival#8212;Last weekend of March or First weekend in April --