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Posted by lianciana on June 18, 2006, 6:18 am
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Hi,
I'd like to know more about the possible use of character entities in
eg: google groups,
Is it possible to use these without using a newsreader directly?
Outside of the usual ASCII characters I mean.
TIA
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Posted by David Dorward on June 18, 2006, 6:37 am
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lianciana@gmail.com wrote:
> I'd like to know more about the possible use of character entities in
> eg: google groups,
What about them? Usenet is a plain text medium (well, mostly). Google Groups
is an HTML interface to it. Character entities aren't used. If you want to
use a character you just type it and ensure that your newsreader (and
Google Groups is a newsreader - just not a very good one) encodes it
according to the character encoding you use (of course you have to use a
character encoding that supports the character).
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Posted by Andy Dingley on June 19, 2006, 4:50 am
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lianciana@gmail.com wrote:
> I'd like to know more about the possible use of character entities in
> eg: google groups,
There's no such thing as "google groups". They're something else
(largely Usenet) presented through a Google-hosted web-based interface
and labelled as "Google groups". Underneath though they're still the
same old ASCII-based format that has been around for decades -- HTML
and character entities are simply inappropriate.
If you mean the use of character entities when posting too and from the
Google Groups web interface, then Google seem to have thought this out
pretty well. They're used when necessary where content is presented to
a browser, but they're not needed when manually entering content.
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Posted by Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz on July 3, 2006, 7:55 pm
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06/18/2006
at 03:18 AM, lianciana@gmail.com said:
>I'd like to know more about the possible use of character entities in
>eg: google groups,
Unless the group charter specifically permits use of HTML, it would be
a breach of netiquette to use character entities.
You should be okay using MIME with one of the common character sets,
e.g., ISO-8859-1, UTF-8.
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