[Pywikipedia-l] [ pywikipediabot-Patches-1862810 ] wikipedia.py:html2unicode : html chars from #128 to #159

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Patches item #1862810, was opened at 2008-01-03 01:41
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Status: Open
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Priority: 5
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Submitted By: Nicolas Dumazet (nicdumz)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: wikipedia.py:html2unicode : html chars from #128 to #159

Initial Comment:
Codepoints from #128 to #159 are unused in both ISO-8859-1 and Unicode, hence html entities numbered in this range *are* illegal.

But the fact is that a lot of websites do use these characters, our browsers now all print these characters, and some of these entities can be found on our wikis.

I found this working on a page containing #155 ( › ) : html2unicode would convert it to unichr(155), which is ›, way more unfit than the previous one. (Yes, actually that's the result you get on a wiki page)

#128, which produces €, was also being converted to unichr(128)... (€)

Cheers,

Nicolas Dumazet.

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