Hi Joshua, If you are serving your content as Unicode (UTF-16 or UTF-8), then there is no need to use entities. If you do need to escape characters and you are using XHTML, then it's best to use their decimal values rather than entities. This makes your markup more easily parsable by XML technologies in your CMS (on the back-end). For example, instead of use  
>>It's just always felt dirty seeing certain characters >>not written in their appropriate entity codes. Hmmm...that's a very English centric view of the Web ;-) Regards, -Vlad http://xstandard.com Standards-compliant XHTML WYSIWYG editor Joshua Street wrote: > I've always thought that characters should be marked up with appropriate > entity codes (for example, accented letters, etc.) in (X)HTML, rather > than simply pasted in and left for character encoding and the user agent > to take care of. I've written a plugin for the WordPress weblog > software that does this for most characters > ( http://www.joahua.com/blog/2005/06/04/curlyenc-03 - any discussion > regarding this email to me offlist or post as comments, please, because > it's software-related ), but I'm still not sure if it's required. It's > just always felt dirty seeing certain characters not written in their > appropriate entity codes. > > Could someone shed any light on this? Are entity codes redundant, or > should we be using them where possible? > > Kind Regards, > Joshua Street > > base10solutions > Website: > http://www.base10solutions.com.au/ > Phone: (02) 9898-0060 Fax: (02) > 8572-6021 > Mobile: 0425 808 469 > > Multimedia Development Agency > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > E-mails and any attachments sent from base10solutions are to be regarded > as confidential. Please do not distribute or publish any of the contents > of this e-mail without the sender’s consent. If you have received this > e-mail in error, please notify the sender by replying to the e-mail, and > then delete the message without making copies or using it in any way. > > Although base10solutions takes precautions to ensure that e-mail sent > from our accounts are free of viruses, we encourage recipients to > undertake their own virus scan on each e-mail before opening, as > base10solutions accepts no responsibility for loss or damage caused by > the contents of this e-mail. > > ________________________________________________________________________ > ****************************************************** > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > > See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > for some hints on posting to the list & getting help > ****************************************************** > > ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
