Gabriel Wicke wrote:
On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 15:07 +0100, Timwi wrote:
What I don't understand about it is why the
text needs to go through any
processing at all that would generate any HTML entities whatsoever. Why
can't the UTF-8 text in the MediaWiki namespace be output directly?
Things like & need to be escaped for xhtml validation. This is done
automatically by phptal for attributes and content if you don't specify
the 'structure' prefix and by tidy (if enabled) or php regexes for the
content.
Oh, OK, I forgot about that ... but doesn't that only affect &, < and >,
and at most possibly also " and '? I don't see why Greek letters would
need to be entity-ised.
Timwi