address@hidden: Bug#158015: tidy: How do you expect a big5 document to contain legal &#number; references?]

[Jason Thomas]

Hi all, forwarded on behave of Dan.

Thanks.

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> Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 10:52:32 +0800
> From: Dan Jacobson <address@hidden>
> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <address@hidden>
> Subject: Bug#158015: tidy: How do you expect a big5 document to contain legal 
> &#number; references?
> 
> Package: tidy
> Version: 20020301-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> First, address@hidden is closed to me because I use an 'Asian spam'
> ISP or something.
> 
> But mainly, consider
> http://jidanni.org/lang/pinyin/19970607tai_ke.html
> I had to do in a Makefile
> #avoid HTML-tidy -raw from mangling my unicode enitites!
> #final processor [of my tidyed doc]:
> 19970607tai_ke.html: tai_ke_src.html
>       sed 's/@\(x\?[0-9a-fA-F]\+\)@/\&#\1;/g' $? > $@
> 
> So, am I not right in asking that I should be given a way to get
> &#numlber; references thru tidy unscathed?
> 
> I even tried the aug 2002 tidy.
> 
> Consider the  &uuml; in
> http://jidanni.org/lang/pinyin/20000527roadsigns.html
> How does one expect to prevent it from being ruined on a -raw run, in
> my charset=big5 document.
> 
> Am I not correct in saying that you have denied the use of any Unicode
> above char 127 for big5 or other Asian 'charset=' users??
> 
> -- System Information
> Debian Release: 3.0
> Architecture: i386
> Kernel: Linux debian 2.4.18-k7 #1 Sun Apr 14 13:19:11 EST 2002 i686
> Locale: LANG=zh_TW.Big5, LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.Big5
> 
> Versions of packages tidy depends on:
> ii  libc6                         2.2.5-6    GNU C Library: Shared libraries 
> an
> 
> 

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