Re: Typing bracket characters

The ISO entity name for [ is [ (Left SQuare Bracket). Unfortunately, I don't think the browser writers have bothered to map it. Mozilla doesn't. Here, [ what do you see? What's your browser?

In the meantime, I think it would be better to patch the Everthing engine to s/[/[/g than using some syntax that doesn't follow any of the existing rules.

`g r i n d e r`

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Re: Re: Typing bracket characters by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor) on Aug 10, 2001 at 01:37 UTC
`g r i n d e r ,` I see the entity name spelled out. It's IE 5.5. I remember netscape didn't like mdash or ldquo or bunches of others, a while back. It's stupid though—how hard can it be to update a simple mapping table, especially when the standard lists all the available codes? I agree the Monistary itself can deal with it. It can simply know all the real entity names itself, and always send out the number form instead, so the browser see &#xxx; form even though I typed the &name; form. —John	[reply]

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Re: Re: Typing bracket characters
by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor) on Aug 10, 2001 at 01:37 UTC

`g r i n d e r ,`

I remember netscape didn't like mdash or ldquo or bunches of others, a while back. It's stupid though—how hard can it be to update a simple mapping table, especially when the standard lists all the available codes?

I agree the Monistary itself can deal with it. It can simply know all the real entity names itself, and always send out the number form instead, so the browser see &#xxx; form even though I typed the &name; form.

—John

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