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- Short: ASCII-Text -> Entity-Codes [1.1.4]
- Author: honma@thepentagon.com (Tamio Patrick Honma)
- Uploader: honma@thepentagon.com (Tamio Patrick Honma)
- Type: util/conv
- Replaces: util/conv/Raw2Ent*
-
- Files: CWISENV
- Raw2Ent 1.1.4 (08.09.96)
- Raw2Ent.doc [this file]
- Raw2Ent.rexx 1.4.1 (14.07.96)
- Raw2Ent.rexx.old 1.3.2 (07.09.96)
-
-
- NOTICE: Since version 1.1.4 this program supports ALL entity-codes available
- on Amiga! (Reference: HTML 3.2 DTD)
-
-
- INTRODUCTION
-
- Raw2Ent converts raw 8-Bit-ASCII-Text into 7-Bit-ASCII-Text with
- entity-codes. The ASCII-Format is a standardized format for information
- interchange, but it is only standardized seven-bit-wide, which means that
- 128 codes are defined. One Byte consists of eight bits and can represent
- 256 different bit combinations. Therefore the last 128 bit combinations are
- defined for free use by any operation-system. The problem is that
- accent-characters and other special characters are not standardized, because
- they are defined in (guess where?! ;) ) the free part of ASCII by the
- operation system developers.
-
- The goal of the Wold Wide Web developers was that it could be used on every
- important operation system. So it was clear that the ASCII-Based
- HTML-Source-Code had to use the standardized seven-bit area of the
- ASCII-Code. To represent accent-characters or other special characters in a
- seven-bit-code, it was neccesary to invent something. And this was the
- entity-code - a kind of escape-code. An entity-code consists of an
- introducing "&" and a ";" at the end. Between these symbols is a
- character-name the browser can interpret. It is a very hard and stupid work
- to convert the ASCII-Text by hand. So just use Raw2Ent!
-
- Raw2Ent produces real 7-Bit-ASCII-Code. All printable Amiga-characters in
- the 8-bit-area will be converted into entity-codes, without any exception.
- The use of names instead of code-numbers will make the entity-codes easier
- to be read by humans. If no name was defined in the HTML 3.2 reference, the
- code-number will be used.
-
-
- SEND COMMENTS TO:
-
- Tamio Patrick Honma
-
- eMail: honma@thepentagon.com
- WWW: http://www.netforward.com/thepentagon/?honma
-
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- ============================= Archive contents =============================
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- Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
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- 663 245 63.0% 18-Jul-96 22:31:56 CWISENV
- 2804 1106 60.5% 09-Sep-96 21:35:22 Raw2Ent
- 8630 3686 57.2% 08-Sep-96 02:59:54 Raw2Ent.doc
- 1131 580 48.7% 06-Sep-96 12:34:22 Raw2Ent.rexx
- 5131 1434 72.0% 08-Sep-96 03:13:22 Raw2Ent.rexx.old
- 22889 7621 66.7% 09-Sep-96 20:46:14 WD-wwwicn.txt
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- 41248 14672 64.4% 11-Sep-96 14:56:48 6 files
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