Comments on: Character to entity encoder bookmarklet

By: Pablo Perez Benitez

Pablo Perez Benitez — Fri, 04 Feb 2005 02:40:13 +0000

Good, but I need a simpler bookmarklet to turn “<” and “>” into entities, so I can easily post code snippets.

By: Jonathon Delacour

Jonathon Delacour — Sun, 12 Oct 2003 00:12:49 +0000

Worked perfectly for me in Firebird 0.6.1 (Windows XP)

Steve, you mentioned in the comment you left on my site that you use the bookmarklet to post weblog entries with Chinese characters and whenever you post comments on other people\’s sites and are not sure their systems can handle the characters directly.

I\’d be interested in your response to Michael Glaesemann\’s comment in which he argues that it\’s better to use characters rather than entities:

http://weblog.delacour.net/archives/2003/10/there_aint_no_such_thing_as_plain_text.php#comment3016

I would also have thought that whether or not the characters are handled properly depends on whether CJK support has been enabled, not that the characters have been replaced by entities. (But I hasten to admit that, like Manuel in Fawlty Towers: \”I know nothing!\”)

By: name

name — Sun, 03 Aug 2003 08:20:33 +0000

By: steve

steve — Mon, 19 May 2003 17:47:02 +0000

Works for me in Firebird 0.6. (about says \”Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030516 Mozilla Firebird/0.6\”)

By: steve

steve — Mon, 19 May 2003 12:21:03 +0000

jh – Glad you like it!

James – I haven\’t tested it on Firebird. I\’ve tried it on Mozilla 1.2 (PC and Mac) and IE 5.5 (also PC and Mac). I\’ll try Firebird tonight and see what happens.

By: James

James — Mon, 19 May 2003 11:56:32 +0000

I\’m having trouble getting this to work in Firebird (latest), is this supported?