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Short: ASCII-Text -> Entity-Codes [1.2]
Author: honma@thepentagon.com (Tamio Patrick Honma)
Uploader: honma@thepentagon.com (Tamio Patrick Honma)
Type: util/conv
Replaces: util/conv/Raw2Ent*
Files: CWISENV
Raw2Ent 1.2 (01.11.96)
Raw2Ent.doc [this file]
Raw2Ent.rexx 1.4.1 (14.07.96)
Raw2Ent.rexx.old 1.3.4 (01.11.96)
INTRODUCTION
Raw2Ent converts raw 8-Bit-ASCII-Text into 7-Bit-ASCII-Text with
entity-codes. The ASCII-Format is a standardized format for information
interchange, but it is only standardized seven-bit-wide, which means that
128 codes are defined. One Byte consists of eight bits and can represent
256 different bit combinations. Therefore the last 128 bit combinations are
defined for free use by any operation-system. The problem is that
accent-characters and other special characters are not standardized, because
they are defined in (guess where?! ;) ) the free part of ASCII by the
operation system developers.
The goal of the Wold Wide Web developers was that it could be used on every
important operation system. So it was clear that the ASCII-Based
HTML-Source-Code had to use the standardized seven-bit area of the
ASCII-Code. To represent accent-characters or other special characters in a
seven-bit-code, it was neccesary to invent something. And this was the
entity-code - a kind of escape-code. An entity-code consists of an
introducing "&" and a ";" at the end. Between these symbols is a
character-name the browser can interpret. It is a very hard and stupid work
to convert the ASCII-Text by hand. So just use Raw2Ent!
Raw2Ent produces real 7-Bit-ASCII-Code. All printable Amiga-characters in
the 8-bit-area will be converted into entity-codes, without any exception.
The use of names instead of code-numbers will make the entity-codes easier
to be read by humans. If no name was defined in the HTML 3.2 reference, the
code-number will be used.
SEND COMMENTS TO:
Tamio Patrick Honma
eMail: honma@thepentagon.com
WWW: http://www.netforward.com/thepentagon/?honma
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663 245 63.0% 18-Jul-96 22:31:56 CWISENV
2908 1231 57.6% 01-Nov-96 02:38:04 Raw2Ent
9658 3998 58.6% 01-Nov-96 11:08:40 Raw2Ent.doc
1131 578 48.8% 01-Nov-96 10:54:58 Raw2Ent.rexx
5120 1482 71.0% 01-Nov-96 10:51:52 Raw2Ent.rexx.old
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19480 7534 61.3% 02-Nov-96 15:27:12 5 files