Problematic glyphs in HTML output

Torsten Bronger <[email protected]> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:37:47 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.texinfo.pretest
Organization Phoenix Foundation
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hall=C3=B6chen!

In HTML output, some characters (e.g. Hungarian umlaut, Polish
l-slash, dotless i) are not printed nicely, but rendered as ASCII.
Unfortunately, this also affects XML output, so I noticed.

The reason stated in the source is that these characters "don't have
HTML support".  I think this statement is rather outdated.  Very
most browsers can digest &#....; for giving an arbitrary Unicode.
It's part of the standard for many years.

XML can do anyway, but before a lot of new "if"s pollute the source,
I wonder whether you agree that this should be fixed for HTML, too.
I even think that one should fix the "Glyphs for Examples" like
"=3D=3D>" or "-!-", since there are Unicodes for them, too.

What do you think?

Tsch=C3=B6,
Torsten.

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Torsten Bronger, aquisgrana, europa vetus

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