Re: [Webmin-trans] Re: [webmin-devel] [WTCO] Old Webmin-Theme

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

Martin Mewes wrote:
> Hi Jamie,
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> Jamie Cameron <jca...@we...> wrote:
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>>I agree that this is a potential problem, but fortunately it doesn't
>>seem to cause any trouble in reality as all browsers that I've seen can=

>>handle single-byte characters like =E4. The only proper solution would =
be
>>for the default theme to convert all escaped entities into their
>>single-byte format before rendering titles. This would be trivial if I
>>could find a list of all HTML entities and their corresponding special
>>characters ..
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> Well ask your WTCO ;-) scnr :->
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> http://www.henniger-online.de/design/zeichen.htm
> ISO-Latin-1- (ISO8859-1)
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> http://www.theorem.ca/~mvcorks/code/charsets/auto.html
> Unicode Characters as Named and Numeric HTML Entities
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> http://www.theorem.ca/~mvcorks/code/charsets/
> Unicode 3.0 character glyphs & numeric entities in HTML 4.0
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> Have a lot of fun ;-)

Thanks, they were just what I was looking for. In the 1.110 release,=20
when using the 'old webmin theme' all HTML entities in page titles=20
will be converted to the correct ASCII character for selection of the=20
proper image to display.

> I started a discussion on the webmin-trans-list whether to use good
> old HTML 3.2 supported Entities or HTML 4 supported ones.
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> Reason is, that I want folks not to mix stuff as it may confuse
> browsers - What is your opinion?

Go for the HTML 3.2 entities - that way you can support the widest=20
range of browsers possible.

  - Jamie