A slightly friendlier version would be to use character entity references defined for HTML 3.2 (see http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html32#latin1). For example, for a lower case 'a' with an acute accent, instead of inserting 'á' into the javadoc , simply insert 'á', which is both easier to remember and easier to read in the source code.
This isn't ideal, especially for those of you with accented characters in your names, but it does guarantee that your names won't be accidentally corrupted if someone else submits a bugfix to one of your source files and their IDE does something screwy with the character encoding. Chris -----Original Message----- From: Sam Ruby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 September 2004 13:42 To: Jakarta General List Subject: Re: FYI: Author tags Just a guess, but I would suspect that the root cause for this restriction is based on ISO-8859-1 being the default charset for HTML documents. If so, there is a simple technical solution to the problem: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/charset.html#h-5.3.1 Works with iso-8859-1. Works with utf-8. Works with ASCII. Well supported by all the current browsers. - Sam Ruby ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System - after being sent from Granta Design Ltd ______________________________________________________________________ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
