Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Ampersand

[Klaus - G. L. <Le...@we...>]

Hello,
> > 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.. ?

> 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
My question provides part of the answer, I asked because of
characters "not" in the wiki character set. But this is for future
use. My real reason for the question was that in a webboard
that I use we had difficulties with this. There had been users
with different computerplatforms and different local charsets
and the charcaters above 127 were different. I assume that
is a problem of the browser. To get this correct the browser
would have to translate the charecterset during input. This
seemed not to function. I have no experience with this
situation in phpwiki since at the moment all users of my wiki
use the same platform and the same character set. I asked
now because i wanted to be sure that future users could get
the correct characters into the wiki. I think if you wanted to
discuss music or language you would need many characters
that are not in ISO-8859-1.

> 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".)
This could mean that entities have to be allowed also in searches.
 
> Allowing entities would be a simple enough fix.  I'll do it
> if no one comes up with a reason not to.

Another unrelated question, if I try to answer a message from
the list, the address is that of the sender and not the list. Is it
recommend that I answer only to the person or should I answer
to the list.

Klaus Leiss