•Re: ••• Re: • What is this?

he doesn't use the &#number entity. he uses the more appropriate •

You're about 3 months late. I type "option-8" to get the latin-1 character now.

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Re: •What is this? by Roy Johnson (Monsignor) on Jul 08, 2004 at 15:59 UTC
Why do you do it at all? (That is, after all, the original question.) We're not really tightening our belts, it just feels that way because we're getting fatter.	[reply]
Re^2: •What is this? by Anonymous Monk on Jul 08, 2004 at 17:00 UTC
That's easy. Shear bloody mindedness.	[reply]
Re^2: ••• Re: • What is this? by bart (Canon) on Jul 08, 2004 at 19:50 UTC
Except, it's not Latin-1. Its official representation in Unicode, of which Latin-1 is a subset, is, as you can see from the subject line of thse follow-ups, 8226. That is not below 256, hence not in the Latin-1 range. What you're inserting is a chr(149) AKA chr(0x95), which is one of the extra characters Microsoft added in its Windows characterset (AKA cp1252), another but incompatible superset of Latin-1. As such, you may expect some XML parsers to barf on the XML version of these pages, and as sporty can confirm, some do — in his case, the Java XML parser he uses for katterbox. I found it odd that XML::Parser didn't seem to mind.	[reply]