Tom Worster wrote:
why use SGML character entity references in a utf-8 file or stream? can't you just put the character in the file?
Because, I thought, HTML files were basically just text files with different file extensions, and that those other characters would not store or display properly if saved in .txt format. Was I mistaken? http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/examples/UTF-8-demo.txt That is supposed to be a UTF-8 encoded text file, between 1/3 and 1/2 of the characters do not display correctly on my screen. Either way, this next link suggests that Turkish characters with no equivalent in the English language should be encoded for Web display: http://webdesign.about.com/od/localization/l/blhtmlcodes-tr.htm And because that is off-topic, I'll throw this in: The consensus seems to be that the proposed "ifset()" and "ifempty()" functions are more effort than they are worth. What I'd like to know is, why "empty()" still exists when every time I turn around, the mentors I turn to locally tell me not to use it, to use "isset()" instead. Because empty() doesn't work with zero. Anyone care to take a stab at that? Reese -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
