74172 - include XHTML1-defined entities for use in xpfe

Status: NEW

(Core :: XUL, enhancement)

Description

[Dan Rosen]

XHTML 1.0 defines general entities for commonly-used unicode characters:

  http://www.w3.org/TR/html/DTD/xhtml-lat1.ent: Latin-1 characters
  http://www.w3.org/TR/html/DTD/xhtml-special.ent: "Special" characters
  http://www.w3.org/TR/html/DTD/xhtml-symbol.ent: Symbols

These should be in the tree and referenceable through chrome urls. For example:

  <!ENTITY % HTMLspecial PUBLIC
    "-//W3C//ENTITIES Special for XHTML//EN"
    "chrome:///entities/xhtml-special.ent">
  %HTMLspecial;

The front-end should be able to make use of these. For example:

  <!ENTITY titleSeperator.label " &ndash; ">

as in bug 22871.

Comment 1

[Dan Rosen]

So where should these files go?

Comment 2

[Dan Rosen]

ok, they're going in xpfe/global/resources/content. they'll be referenceable as
chrome://global/content/whatever.ent. patch on the way...

Comment 3

[rbs]

Sounds a cousin of bug 44458 which has a list of XHTML entities in DTD form.

Comment 4

[Karl Ove Hufthammer]

Do we really need these? Most localizations use non-ASCII characters and there 
have been no problems using UTF-8 for these.

Comment 5

[Dan Rosen]

Karl: The Latin-1 characters (ö for example) aren't what we're really
interested in here. We're mostly interested in the typographic characters
( , –, • and so forth), which are of general use in the UI. Case
in point: bug 22871.

Also, bug 44458 is on my radar...

Comment 6

[Dan Rosen]

->moz0.9.1, per triage

Comment 7

[Dan Rosen]

->future (this is easily done, but there's no point in doing it until we have
74753 fixed).

Comment 8

[Dan Rosen]

Note to self: other "unicode in the gui" bugs include bug 60384, bug 52978, and
bug 12662.

Comment 9

[Dan Rosen]

[spam] [e-mail]'s bugs subject to redistribution by chofmann. R!

Comment 10

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

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