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Posted by stefaniefauconnier on October 18, 2007, 4:12 pm
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I've got some html-files with a lot of greek characters in utf-8. When
I open my source code, I don't see the numeric character reference but
the character itself. How can I change this?
I really need source codes with numeric character references.
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Posted by Janne Tuukkanen on October 18, 2007, 4:37 pm
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Thu, 18 Oct 2007 20:12:35 +0000, stefaniefauconnier kirjoitti:
> I've got some html-files with a lot of greek characters in utf-8. When I
> open my source code, I don't see the numeric character reference but the
> character itself. How can I change this? I really need source codes with
> numeric character references.
You have to convert characters to html entities.
Recode ( http://recode.progiciels-bpi.ca/ ) should do the job.
JanneT
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Posted by André Gillibert on October 18, 2007, 5:20 pm
Please log in for more thread options stefaniefauconnier@gmail.com wrote:
> I've got some html-files with a lot of greek characters in utf-8. When
> I open my source code, I don't see the numeric character reference but
> the character itself.
Most probably, you used a text editor supporting UTF-8 and the greek
characters are encoded in UTF-8. This is perfectly fine.
> How can I change this?
> I really need source codes with numeric character references.
To see the Unicode code points, use an hex editor.
Do you want to convert these characters to HTML character references such
as &#N; where N is a number in decimal notation?
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Posted by stefaniefauconnier on October 19, 2007, 4:11 am
Please log in for more thread options > To see the Unicode code points, use an hex editor.
> Do you want to convert these characters to HTML character references such
> as &#N; where N is a number in decimal notation?
yes, I do...
i'll have a look at this recode program.
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Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on October 20, 2007, 3:20 am
Please log in for more thread options Scripsit stefaniefauconnier@gmail.com:
>> To see the Unicode code points, use an hex editor.
>> Do you want to convert these characters to HTML character references
>> such as &#N; where N is a number in decimal notation?
>
> yes, I do...
Why? There's always someone who rewrites working code, to clean it up, or to
speed it up, or (as here?) just to recode it. Here it would increase the
amount of bytes needed to represent a Greek character, though it would be
more serious that the HTML code would become tedious to read and change.
I can imagine a few cases where the recoding might make sense, but I can
also imagine many cases where people want that for no good reason and just
cause confusion. Remember that in any such change, there's the risk of
messing things up, even if the conversion is as such trivial.
(My guess is that you would do the recoding in order to be able to work with
the files using an editor that cannot handle UTF-8. In that case, you should
have stated that and perhaps asked the right question "How can I find a
UTF-8 capable editor for my ... system?" - in the right group.)
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