Closed Bug 87052 Opened 23 years ago Closed 23 years ago

HTML-Entity converter

Categories

(Core :: DOM: Editor, enhancement, P4)

Product:
Core
Component:
DOM: Editor
Type:
enhancement

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED FIXED
Milestone:
Future

People

(Reporter: seminar_, Assigned: rubydoo123)

Details

(Whiteboard: [RFE]) 

Feature request:
A format - paragraph option to auto-convert accented characters (etc)
into HTML entities such as è for the "e grave" character
available on many european keyboards.
Otherwise, other web browser might misinterpret the character and display
incorrect text or even an error message.
The code for this is already in the public-domain as a part of
HTML-TIDY avaialable at:

http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/

It would be nice to have the inverse conversion too.
Composer already saves è as è. ISO-Latin1 chars are encoded using
mnemonic entities. Other chars are saved using decimal numeric references.
However, this is not reflected in the source view.

If this bug is about saving the file, I think this bug is invalid.

If this bug is about showing the entity references in the source view exactly as
they get written to disk, then this bug needs resummarizing.
moving to future and adding keywords
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Priority: -- → P4
Whiteboard: [RFE]
Target Milestone: --- → Future
what is the bug here?
Forget this feature request!
 - the functionality is already in Editor.
Accents get converted to text when you save to file.
The HTML source view is slightly misleading because
it doesn't show the HTML-entity versions. But I'm
not complaining since the result is a lot more readable.
Well done guys
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Gavin, please mark this VERIFIED-FIXED if you can...thanks...
Verifying as requested
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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