Not sure why that would ever make sense. Wiki markup isn't HTML and shouldn't 
ever be confused with such. How would you render an HTML entity when formatting 
a wiki page to text or to a PDF for example?

--Noah

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
> On Behalf Of Erik Bray
> Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 10:23 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Trac] Re: HTML Entities in wik pages
> 
> 
> I think the main point is that it would be nice to be able to somehow
> type in named HTML entities in a wiki page, and have them unescaped.
> It's easier to type &lte; than it is to configure an easy to use input
> method for arbitrary symbols.  I'm not saying it's Trac's job to solve
> that problem.  It's just something I've run into before myself.
> 
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:14 AM, Noah Kantrowitz <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > Not sure what you mean by that, but if it is a Unicode character just
> > type it in using whatever input method you prefer. My point is that
> > the wiki system handles HTML escaping for you. Assuming you do mean
> > some <= unicode glyph, it wouldn't need to be escaped anyway.
> >
> > --Noah
> >
> > On Jan 19, 2009, at 8:49 PM, Chris Nelson wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Noah Kantrowitz wrote:
> >>> On Jan 19, 2009, at 4:52 PM, Chris Nelson wrote:
> >>>> Sorry if this is obvious -- it seems it should be but I didn't
> find
> >>>> the answer -- but how can I put HTML Entities like &le; in a wiki
> >>>> page.  Perhaps I should ask a more general question, how can I put
> >>>> symbols like less-equals, etc. in wiki pages?
> >>>
> >>> Just put < in the wiki page ...
> >>
> >> That's &lt;  I want less-than-or-equals
> >>
> >> >
> >
> >
> > >
> >
> 
> 


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