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
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