[webkit-dev] API in webkit to convert Unicode <--> HTML named entities?

Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis bhawkeslewis at googlemail.com
Tue Jul 22 00:26:57 PDT 2008


Dan Wood wrote:
> Yeah, that's one approach but it is way overkill for many needs, and  
> invokes threads that aren't what you want for a simple function, and  
> also only go from named entity into rendered Unicode character, and  
> not the opposite (as you mention).  I want the named entities rather  
> than numbered for human-coder-readability....

Note that for the vast majority of characters in Unicode, no named 
entities exist.

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Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis


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