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Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] how to output HTML entities?
Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org> writes: > I want <computeroutput> inside <programlisting> to be preceded with a > double right arrow (XHTML ⇒) and a space for the first such element > and 3 spaces for all following elements. [...] Don't use ISO (HTML) named character entities. They are a relic. Either author in UTF-8 and enter the Unicode characters directly, or use numeric character entities -- in this case, ⇒ or ⇒ There's an online tool you can use to look up numeric values for named characters, and vice versa: http://www.saila.com/usage/tips/examples/special_characters.html Better yet, if you're using Emacs, you can try Norm's "XML Unicode" package - http://norman.walsh.name/2003/10/03/xmlunicode http://nwalsh.com/emacs/xmlchars/ It gives you several ways to enter special characters - - choose the character you want from a menu - choose by the full Unicode name (e.g., "RIGHTWARDS DOUBLE ARROW"), with completion - choose by the ISO (HTML) named-character entity name (e.g., rArr), with completion; or with (set-input-method 'xml), type in the ISO (HTML) named-character entity name and it gets automatically converted to the real Unicode character (if your Emacs can find the glyph for it; otherwise, it gets converted to a numeric entity)
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