On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Toby Bartels wrote:
See [[Wikipedia:Special characters]]. The "Entity" column in the table (with all the "&...;" stuff) shows how to create special characters using only ASCII input.
Why is this a good idea? (I claim that it is on [[en:]].)
Well, it's a bad idea at present because it breaks our search engine. A directly input e-acute will be searchable, while é is not.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)