Re: [PATCH] cvs 2005-09-11: html2text.el::html2text-replace-list updates

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

On Sun, Sep 11 2005, Romain Francoise wrote:

> Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> writes:
>
>> 2005-09-11  Jari Aalto  <jari dot aalto A T cante dot net>
>>
>>         * html2text.el: (html2text-replace-list): Added new entities.
>
> Applied; thanks!

I still doubt that maintaining yet another list of entities is a good
idea...

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| From: Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>
| Subject: Re: html2text
| To: <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
| Cc: [...] (Jari Aalto+mail.emacs)
| Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 23:44:24 +0100
| Message-ID: <v9oei6d4mv.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de>
| 
| [...]
| >  (defvar html2text-replace-list
| > -  '(("&nbsp;" . " ") ("&gt;" . ">") ("&lt;" . "<") ("&quot;" . "\"")
| > -    ("&amp;" . "&") ("&apos;" . "'"))
| > +  '(("&acute;" . "`")
| 
| This should be "´".
| 
| > +    ("&amp;" . "&")
| > +    ("&apos;" . "'")
| > +    ("&brvbar;" . "|")
| > +    ("&cent;" . "c")
| > +    ("&circ;" . "^")
| > +    ("&copy;" . "(C)")
| > +    ("&curren;" . "¤")
| > +    ("&deg;" . "degree")
| > +    ("&divide;" . "/")
| > +    ("&euro;" . "e")
| > +    ("&frac12;" . "½")
| [...]
| 
| It seems strange to use Latin-1 characters for some entities, but not
| for all encodable by Latin-1.
| 
| On a second thought, it looks like there are already more or less
| complete lists[1] e.g. in `mm-url-html-entities' (from Gnus),
| `sgml-char-names', `sgml-char-names-table', `iso-iso2sgml-trans-tab'
| (Emacs) or `w3m-entity-alist' (emacs-w3m).
| 
| Probably one of these could be used.  Hm, maybe the function
| `iso-sgml2iso' could be used in `html2text.el'?
| 
| Bye, Reiner.
| 
| [1] Might be checked with
|     http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/sgml/entities.html or other
|     tables.
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