Gabriel Wicke wrote:
On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 15:07 +0100, Timwi wrote:
What I don't understand about it is why the text needs to go through any processing at all that would generate any HTML entities whatsoever. Why can't the UTF-8 text in the MediaWiki namespace be output directly?
Things like & need to be escaped for xhtml validation. This is done automatically by phptal for attributes and content if you don't specify the 'structure' prefix and by tidy (if enabled) or php regexes for the content.
Oh, OK, I forgot about that ... but doesn't that only affect &, < and >, and at most possibly also " and '? I don't see why Greek letters would need to be entity-ised.
Timwi