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- <WEBPAGE chapter="hsc - Features - " title="Replace Entities"
- PREV="uris.html"
- NEXT="getsize.html"
- QTEXT=("Go west<BR>"
- +"Paradise is there<BR>"
- +"You'll have all that you can eat<BR>"
- +"Of milk & honey over there")
- QAUTHOR='Natalie Merchant, "San Andreas Fault"'>
-
- <P>Once upon a time, some guys invented ASCII. As these guys have been
- Americans, they did not care (or probably not even know) about the
- rest of the world and said: "128 different characters are enough." So,
- nowadays you still can't write and read a simple german umlaut within
- different computer systems.</P>
-
- <P>But, thank god, the guys who perpetrated html, after about 30 years
- of a computer world without working umlauts, provide a solution to
- this tricky problem: Instead of typing "Ü", simply write
- <CODE>Ü</CODE>. Congratulations, what a great idea! 7 bit
- rulez!</P>
-
- <p>So as consequence of this prehistoric {beep}, <hsc> can replace
- special characters in the hsc-source with its entities in the
- html-object. You just need to enable the <A
- HREF=":options.html">RPLCENT</A> switch. </P>
-
- <P><STRONG>Note:</STRONG>This only works for special
- characters that have been defined with <ln_defent> in
- <hsc.prefs></P>
-
- </WEBPAGE>
-