render characters rather than entities?

  • Resolved ejm

    (@llizard)


    18 years, 2 months ago

    I’m running wp2.0.4

    Occasionally, I use extended characters (é, ♥ by typing é ♥) in a post_title. When one hovers over the date of post on the calendar, the character entity shows rather than the character itself. For example, if a post were entitled “Café Express”, the title spec would be “Café Express”

    I’ve searched wp as best I can for a fix – found mention about how to get these kinds of characters to appear in the permalink rather than be removed entirely. But I don’t think that’s the answer.

    I also looked in php.net and believe that html_entity_decode may be the coding required. But where would it go??

    What part(s) of wp needs changing to render characters rather than entities in titlespecs on the sidebar? I’m guessing somewhere in wp_includes/functions.php or wp_includes/functions_formatting.php

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  • I used to blog in a langauge other than English that has many accented characters but I just typed them directly in the title, without entities, i.e. éá?úüóí? – and they show up correctly in the calendar.

    Thread Starter ejm

    (@llizard)

    And did you site validate, moshu? I was under the impression that if one used extended characters, they had to be encoded with character entities to ensure that as many different OS would see the same characters as typed.

    I am afraid that’s an “old” impression…
    And unicode/utf-8 was invented exactly for that reason: to have one encoding for any language and to have it displayed the same across OS.
    Since WP’s default encoding is utf-8 (unless you’ve chenged it, in which case you might have troubles!) there is no reason to complicate thing with entities.

    I can give you examples of post text, post title, Page title etc. that are displaying correctly even in calendar and everywhere else… and they were all typed in by changing the language on the keyword, never even thinking about entities ??

    Thread Starter ejm

    (@llizard)

    I was not aware of that, moshu, and had wondered about the caution to use UTF-8 in the blog. I havern’t changed it and I have been diligently changing any instances of accented letters such as é to é.

    Does this UTF-8 extend to the 8000 and 9000 characters too? (say ≠ (#8800), ► (#9658) or ♥ (#9829)?)

    (I just googled about this and plan to stare at
    https://www.w3.org/International/O-charset.en.php
    to try to get a handle on this.)

    To be honest, I never use that “black triangle” or whatever its name is… and I don’t know if this | is the same as yours.
    But I can assure you my mother tongue has definitely more accented vowels than, let’s say the Canadian French – and they all work well in the blog, exactly like here:
    aáeéiíoó??uúü? <== all I did, switched the language on the keyboard. Usually, I have 4 languages installed for the keyboard (one of them uses Cyrillic) and never have to think about entities if I want to write in any of them.

    Thread Starter ejm

    (@llizard)

    To be honest, I too am unlikely to use the black triangle either. I was merely choosing it along with the “not equal to” sign and heart as examples of non-standard characters that might well be used and aren’t accented letters.

    I asked elsewhere about this (not that I didn’t believe you, moshu) and see that the only characters that require character entities with UTF-8 are

    & (ampersand: &amp;amp;)
    < (less than: &amp;lt;
    > (greater than: &amp;gt;).

    Article here:
    https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-escapes#use

    Thread Starter ejm

    (@llizard)

    rrrr… of course I meant to type:

    & (ampersand: &amp;)
    < (less than: &lt;)
    > (greater than: &gt;).

    Nobody reads what is in the instructions below ??
    for code to prevent rendering… use backticks: one at the beginning, another one at the end.
    ` – usually it is located on the same key as ~ [tilde]

    Thread Starter ejm

    (@llizard)

    Actually I did read the instructions… but I was overthinking the whole thing :-/ and surrounded the character entitied character entities (if you know what I mean) in backticks – thus producing the mess I did. Sorry about that….

    (Some days, I shouldn’t be let out of my cage.)

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