On 11/01/06, Kat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it safe to use the named references that formerly refered to the control > characters?
Multi level answer here: - text/html: Should be perfectly safe. - application/xhtml+xml: Should be, but isn't, safe except for the five named entities of XML. Use decimal or hexadecimal character references instead. - application/xml: Only safe in validating user agents. Which doesn't include browsers. So, use decimal or hexadecimal character references. > If you have used these named references in the past, so long as you > have(update to) the correct character encoding, > do these automatically refer to the correct entities? Character references refer to Unicode code points independent of the document encoding and character set. At least for HTML4 and XML, if not for HTML3.2. Named entities just map to the corresponding character references. -- David "liorean" Andersson <uri:http://liorean.web-graphics.com/> ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
