On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 23:42 -0400, Vlad Alexander wrote: > 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  
Ah, okay. The plugin is using decimal values, but WordPress also uses UTF-8 by default -- so perhaps it is redundant. > >>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 ;-) Yeah, I thought that too, but couldn't think of another way to say it! *blushes whilst wishing he were bilingual!* Thanks :) -- Joshua Street <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> base10solutions ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
