Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 02/24/07 22:11

Scripsit Samuel van Laere:

> Just to be sure, what should one use when using UTF8?
> I'm not sure if it has anything to do with the subject.

It has quite a lot to do with it, since using UTF-8, you can insert _any_
character as such into the document and won't need entity or character
references. You might still _want_ to use either of them, e.g. if you don't
know how to enter an arbitrary character (there's virtually always some way
when you use a UTF-8 enabled editor) or if the character is not a normal
graphic character but e.g. the no-break space, the zero width joiner or the
soft hyphen.

> I've used character references, and hopefully I did the right
> thing.

No problem. No need to change them. Using UTF-8, you could save some bytes
by entering the characters directly, but it probably does not pay off to
change existing document in this respect.

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Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

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