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HTML entites in ClothRed: yay or nay?

Phillip Gawlowski

4/12/2007 12:47:00 PM

In preparation of release 0.3.0 (hopefully later today ;), I'm
wondering: Should I translated HTML entities into human-readable format?
My hunch is yes, as that's the point of Textile.

So, I'm at a bit of a loss: I've never, ever worked with character
encodings (I don't even know how to check the encoding on Linux or Windows).

So, my question is, how do I replace the HTML entities with ISO-8859-1
characters?

The trouble is, that the character encodings don't seem to be taken off
of UTF-8 or something else that I can just escape, or can I?

Meanwhile, I'm digging through the RDoc documentation. Hopefully, I can
find something there.

--
Phillip "CynicalRyan" Gawlowski
http://cynicalryan....
http://clothred.rub...

Rule of Open-Source Programming #13:

Your first release can always be improved upon.
2 Answers

Adriano Ferreira

4/12/2007 1:07:00 PM

0

It seems like you need HTMLEntities
(http://htmlentities.ruby...) which will add a dependency on
your distribution (but better than repeating the same effort others
did).

I think that dependency may be made optional and ClothRed could throw
an exception when asked to decode HTML entities and could not find
that module. I don't know if this is acceptable to you.

From the docs, code like

require 'htmlentities'
coder = HTMLEntities.new
string = "élan"
coder.decode(string) # => "élan"

take your HTML with entities into UTF-8 characters if I understood correctly.

Cheers,
Adriano Ferreira.

On 4/12/07, Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@googlemail.com> wrote:
> In preparation of release 0.3.0 (hopefully later today ;), I'm
> wondering: Should I translated HTML entities into human-readable format?
> My hunch is yes, as that's the point of Textile.
>
> So, I'm at a bit of a loss: I've never, ever worked with character
> encodings (I don't even know how to check the encoding on Linux or Windows).
>
> So, my question is, how do I replace the HTML entities with ISO-8859-1
> characters?
>
> The trouble is, that the character encodings don't seem to be taken off
> of UTF-8 or something else that I can just escape, or can I?
>
> Meanwhile, I'm digging through the RDoc documentation. Hopefully, I can
> find something there.
>
> --
> Phillip "CynicalRyan" Gawlowski
> http://cynicalryan....
> http://clothred.rub...
>
> Rule of Open-Source Programming #13:
>
> Your first release can always be improved upon.
>
>
>

John Joyce

4/12/2007 1:09:00 PM

0

All HTML can be coded in ASCII, as can XML and XHTML
However, that is simply the markup itself.
Do not forgo the encoding.
Convert everything to UTF-8
There is no reason to use anything else.
Visit:
http://www.unicode.o...

http://www.un...

On Apr 12, 2007, at 9:46 PM, Phillip Gawlowski wrote:

> In preparation of release 0.3.0 (hopefully later today ;), I'm
> wondering: Should I translated HTML entities into human-readable
> format? My hunch is yes, as that's the point of Textile.
>
> So, I'm at a bit of a loss: I've never, ever worked with character
> encodings (I don't even know how to check the encoding on Linux or
> Windows).
>
> So, my question is, how do I replace the HTML entities with
> ISO-8859-1 characters?
>
> The trouble is, that the character encodings don't seem to be taken
> off of UTF-8 or something else that I can just escape, or can I?
>
> Meanwhile, I'm digging through the RDoc documentation. Hopefully, I
> can find something there.
>
> --
> Phillip "CynicalRyan" Gawlowski
> http://cynicalryan....
> http://clothred.rub...
>
> Rule of Open-Source Programming #13:
>
> Your first release can always be improved upon.
>
>