Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Ampersand

[Jeff D. <da...@da...>]

> I have a question regarding international characters not in the wiki
> character set. Since the ampersand gets escaped I am not able to
> use ccharacter eentities. What was the reason for this design.. ?

This has been discussed before, but I don't remember the answer.

Offhand, I can't think of a reason why entities should be allowed.
Can anyone else?

Note that currently the page data is stored as ISO-8859-1,
so you can use any ISO-8859-1 character, as long as you can
figure out how to type it in directly.  This handles all
the western european accented and umlauted characters (=F9=FA=FB=FC)
as well as a few funky things like =A7=BC=BD=BE=D7=A9=A5=AE=B0=B1=B5=B6

If we allowed entities, we'd want to convert ones representable
in ISO-8859-1 to ISO-8859-1 upon page saving, since otherwise it
would hinder searching.  (Searches for "H=E4schen" won't find
the text "Häschen".)

Allowing entities would be a simple enough fix.  I'll do it
if no one comes up with a reason not to.