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From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
Date: 01 Feb 1997 13:50:41 +0100
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Michael Sperber (sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de) wrote:
> >>>>> "Hrvoje" == Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:
> 
> Hrvoje> Entities do need to be there in symbolic forms, if the user has
> Hrvoje> written them that way.
> 
> Yes, but currently psgml-html converts them even if they aren't.  Not
> terrible, but it did violate the principle of least surprise for me.

Then we agree it's evil? :-)  Sorry, must have misunderstood your
previous mail.

> Hrvoje> The fact that the standard character set is iso-8859-1 can be
> Hrvoje> easily overriden/customized (see my mail with the META
> Hrvoje> example; the same can be achieved with HTTP Content-Type
> Hrvoje> header).
> 
> Right, but should this be relevant to the output that psgml-html
> produces?  Maybe I'm not seeing straight in this issue.  It's no big
> deal, after all.

You're seeing straight -- psgml *shouldn't* do what it currently
does.  It should leave the entities alone.

-- 
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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If a President doesn't do it to his wife, he'll do it to his country.

