Re: use of special characters (mostly accented words) in index.wml

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Subject: Re: use of special characters (mostly accented words) in index.wml
From: Giovanni Mascellani <mascellani@poisson.phc.unipi.it>
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 17:02:52 +0200
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Francesca ha scritto:
> In italian we use accented vowels; so, usually, I use entities in HTML
> document (like &egrave; instead of è) and I think it's correct to use
> entities to represent accented letters also in wml.
> But then, when we convert index.wml in plain text in order to send the
> newsletter...the entieties returns entities!

What should be the encoding used in WMLs? I translated some Debian web
pages using ISO-8859-15 (which is able to encoded the accented
characters used in Italian), and the accented characters are correctly
displayed.

Giovanni.
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