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From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
Date: 01 Feb 1997 10:40:31 +0100
In-Reply-To: Steven L Baur's message of 31 Jan 1997 21:42:38 -0800
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Steven L. Baur (steve@miranova.com) wrote:
> > 3. It creates serious ambiguities in the display of your HTML buffer
> 
> In the case of &nbsp;, I agree.  Not so for the other ISO Latin-1
> characters.

I'm sorry, Steve, but you are wrong.  The whole matter is totally and
utterly evil.  The person who implemented this should be publicly
whipped.

Example #1

If I type:

There are <strong>three&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;spaces here.

How many spaces do I get before, and after saving.  Before saving
three spaces, after saving, one space.  HTML will ignore the extra
white-space. 

Example #2

If I type

<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-2">
</head><body>
This is the copyright symbol: &copy;
</body>

What do I get before saving?  A copyright symbol (not in netscape,
though, but it is a bug, and MSIE gets it right).  After saving?  The
`sh' letter, as it should be in my last name (Nikshich).

You see?  Entities are *not* the same as the characters the code of
which >= 128!  &copy; is *always* the copyright symbol, no matter what
the charset parameter says.  When translated to the latin1 code, it's
the copyright symbol *only* in latin1.

For these reasons, this "feature" should be turned *off* by default.
Pretty pretty please.

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Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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