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honestrosewater
Dec8-04, 10:48 AM
In another thread, someone was trying to use the ISO-8859-1 character code for ö and forgot the semicolon. They wrote ö and when I quoted them to point out the omission, the character magically appeared. When input from the text box, ö appears in the html as & amp;#246 (no space) as expected. But when editing or quoting, it appears as ö. What is happening?!
What is happening?!
The ampersand symbol got converted into its ASCII equivalent in HTML.
honestrosewater
Dec10-04, 05:57 AM
The ampersand symbol got converted into its ASCII equivalent in HTML.
PF's html says it uses ISO-8859-1 not ASCII. I understand why & appears as & amp; in the html. But why does & amp;#246 appear as ö when entered the second time, presumably from the html? Does something add the semicolon to the end?
PF's html says it uses ISO-8859-1 not ASCII.
ISO-8859-1 is a superset of US-ASCII.
But why does & amp;#246 appear as ö when entered the second time, presumably from the html? Does something add the semicolon to the end?
The semicolon is not necessary if the immediate character following the entity is a white space or end of line. Your browser will render the entity inside the textarea block, even though it doesn't have a trailing semicolon. I assure you there is nothing strange going on.
honestrosewater
Dec10-04, 09:44 PM
wave,
Thanks for the info. :biggrin:
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