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Date:      Thu, 5 Feb 2004 08:38:47 +0200
From:      Alexey Zelkin <phantom@FreeBSD.org.ua>
To:        Alex Dupre <ale@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Hiroki Sato <hrs@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: tidy flag
Message-ID:  <20040205063847.GA13136@phantom.cris.net>
In-Reply-To: <402171B7.7020205@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <3FFDCE40.20600@FreeBSD.org> <401A1786.9020705@FreeBSD.org> <20040204.171343.23008681.hrs@eos.ocn.ne.jp> <402171B7.7020205@FreeBSD.org>

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hi,

On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 11:27:03PM +0100, Alex Dupre wrote:
> Hiroki Sato wrote:
> 
> > Since tidy always translates &xxx; into a raw character even when the
> > -raw option is specified, it can break a doc in a encoding other than
> > iso-8859-1.  The -preserve option is a hack to prevent this translation,
> > which has been written by phantom@ at that time.
> 
> Ok, the question then becomes: is it possible to replace the -preserve 
> tidy-stable flag with the -numeric tidy-devel flag? Otherwise can you 
> send me a pratical example where -preserve is needed? We (Thierry Thomas 
> and me) will try ourself.

Well.  Try below html code with -preserve and without.  You'll see a
difference.  Actually most annoying things was a 'entity expansion', but
there were also some problems with non-ASCII symbols processing under
some conditions (but unfortunatelly i don't remember details).

<html>
  <body>
    NBSP - &nbsp;
    COPY - &copy;
  </body>
</html>
 



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