Replace entities

Once upon a time, some guys invernted ASCII. As these guys have been americans, they dind't bother about the rest of the world and said: "128 different characters are enough."

So, nowadays you can't write and read a simple german umlaut within different computer systems.

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: If you want to type "Ü", simply write Ü. Congratulations, what a great idea!

So as another feature, hsc can replace special characters in the HSC-source with its entities in the HTML-object.

Simple enable the RplcEnt switch.

Note:This only works for special characters that have been defined with <$DEFENT>. See the hsc.prefs for details.

Thomas Aglassinger ( agi@sbox.tu-graz.ac.at ), 09-Oct-1995, 10:59