RE: about ascii-chars

Arnaud Desitter wrote:
> I would like to conclude http://tidy.sf.net/bug/1082088.
> Basically, "ascii-chars" is used to modify "--clean yes" and
> results in downgrading some symbol to an ASCII "closest"
> equivalent (see DowngradeTypography in clean.c).
> The current default of ascii-char is "yes".
> 
> Possible outcomes:
> #1 we leave the default as is and close the bug
> #2 we change the default to "no" as 2005 browsers are better than
> 1998 ones and as it causes bad surprises. When done, we close
> the bug.
> 
> I vote for #2. Any opinions ?

Agreed!  

(I've been bitten by this numerous times, even when I should have known
better.)


/Jelks



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