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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Q: html editor
From:       Thomas <zander () xs4all ! nl>
Date:       2000-04-30 17:51:42
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> 
> Hi!
> Michael Freiberg wrote:
> > 
> > I just press F10 and I can enter the source. One thing I hate
> > during coding is the character enconding  like &uuml; and &eacute;
> > Some words look like Sp&auml;&szlig;chen. But it could be
> > implemented in an *real* html editor like Webmaker
> > that special characters are replaced while coding, couldnt' it?
> 
> Yes, it seems very simple to me. But is there any _real_ need to encode
> 8-bit characters into HTML-entities? I didn't see any browser that had
> any problems with 8 bit. Or did I miss something?
> 

What you missed is cross platform compatibility. For example the fontset
used on macintosh has other font-encoding as on windows. A number
of characters will display simply wrong (the square is not even
present on mac..)


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Thomas Zander                                              zander@earthling.net
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