Re: AW: AW: [Freedict-beta] tei p4 files: moving to xml

[Rik F. <fa...@di...>]

On Sat  3 May 2003 08:23:04 +0200,
   ho...@fr... <ho...@fr...> wrote:
> On 29 Apr, Rik Faith wrote:
> > On Tue 29 Apr 2003 09:54:16 +0200,
> >    Eyermann Horst ICM Bocholt <hor...@si...> wrote:
> >> Step 3: Choose your Entity Sets
> >>   do we need any of them, or is utf-8 just fine?
> > 
> > Is there anything that utf-8 doesn't capture?  If someone uses other
> > entities, is it easy to convert them to utf-8?  Is this a readability
> > issue?
> 
> Well, the entities are just other ways of displaying the
> characters. "&amp; / &lt; / &gt;" are for "& / < / >"
> there are all other kind of entities for non ASCII characters,
> for example in german &ouml; is ö (o") - but as we want to suppor
> all kind of languages (and IPA phonetic characters), I think we
> should either support everything, or nothing, to make it
> consistent. (XML requires/recommends &, <, and > to be escaped.)

In this case, I would advocate supporting all entities in the interest
of human readability -- there is a lot that can be done with a 7-bit
ASCII editor and entities, even though the document is strictly UTF-8.