Re: Yet more unicode and page template weirdness

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 01:56:58PM +0100, Chris Withers wrote:
> On 13/10/2010 13:47, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 08:53:08AM +0100, Chris Withers wrote:
> >> In Zope 2.12, try putting the following in a TTW ZPT:
> >>
> >> <tal:c content="&#8250;"/>
> >
> > Are you sure you didn't mean
> >
> >    <tal:c content="string:&#8250;"/>
> 
> Ah, d'oh! Thanks for the catch!
> 
> > The way XML works, all entities in an attribute value are decoded before
> > being interpreted, so your TALES interpreter gets an expression
> > u'\u203a' which it then fails to interpret.
> 
> Makes sense, thanks! What about entities outside of attributes?

You're absolutely right, 

  &#8250;

is a much more straightforward way to insert that character than

  <tal:c content="string:&#8250;"/>

Marius Gedminas
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