Re: Conversion of english pages to Unicode, via HTML entities.
Hi Charles,
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 10:24:48PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> Le Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:09:36AM +0100, Gerfried Fuchs a écrit :
> >
> > Out of iso-8859-1 is actually still on the agenda and will happen.
>
> would it be welcome if I would start to replace iso-8859-1 characters
> by HTML entities using smart-change for the english language, in order
> to ease conversion to Unicode ? As of today, there would be this
> number of files changed in the following directories.
[..]
No, I would even advice the other: remaining entities -> to the coding used by
each language.
HTML entities are so 90's, they prevent correct spell checking, grep etc.
During conversion of french I've not encountered any issue related to entities,
and took the opportunity to convert remaning entities to utf8.
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Simon Paillard
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