Hello Joshua, all, Here is the advice from the W3C Internationalization Activity:
http://www.w3.org/International/tutorials/tutorial-char-enc/en/all.html#Slide0420 (See in particular the subsection "When to use escapes".) In summary, use characters rather than escapes when you can, except for a handful of syntax-significant characters, and for ambiguous or invisible characters. (Note that we also suggest using hex numbers rather than decimal, since most charts or people dealing with character code points refer to them that way - but that's not essential.) Hope that helps. RI ============ Richard Ishida W3C contact info: http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/ W3C Internationalization: http://www.w3.org/International/ Publication blog: http://people.w3.org/rishida/blog/ > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joshua Street > Sent: 04 June 2005 03:52 > To: Web Standards Group mailing list > Subject: [WSG] Character encoding > > 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 ******************************************************
