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He couldn't use <c>..</c> because that would have limited him to the iso-8859-1 charset. The content of posts must be encoded using iso-8859-1 when submitted, and entities get displayed literally inside <c>..</c> tags.

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Re^3: Missing download links.
by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Jan 09, 2010 at 00:13 UTC

    Good to know. I have been a little perplexed in the past by related comments about charsets and the site which are now clear. Thanks.

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      PerlMonks delivers pages in iso-8859-1, so the form content must be encoded using the same.

      Hoping for the best, some browsers HTML-encode characters that aren't present in the form's charset. So if I enter "♠" into the form, my browser sends in "&#9824;". Outside of code tags, that sequence gets echoed back by PerlMonks so you see "♠".

      Of course, code tags encode HTML meta-characters including "&", so the sequence gets encoded and appears as "&#9824;".

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