On Fri, 30 Jun 2000 10:17:29 -0700 Alan Kay Alan.Kay@disney.com wrote:
P.S. I haven't seen the <thorn> notation before today .......
There is an interesting bi-directional translating feature in Squeak these days. Having acquired mappings for iso characters, a number of them map to $? (I guess because we lack an equivalent). The side effect of this is that
'?' asHtml
once upon a time was ---> '?' but now it comes back as ---> 'þ'
which may cause interesting glitches in non-Squeakified recipients. Below is a list of html entities that map to characters in the first 128 positions. Some are obviously correct and necessary, but perhaps we should do something special for those that map to $?.
Cheers, Bob
'thorn' $? 63 'quot' $" 34 'curren' $? 63 'gt' $> 62 'yacute' $y 121 'Yacute' $Y 89 'shy' $- 45 'amp' $& 38 'ETH' $? 63 'sup2' $2 50 'sup3' $3 51 'sup1' $1 49 'frac14' $? 63 'frac12' $? 63 'frac34' $? 63 'lt' $< 60 'eth' $? 63 'brvbar' $| 124 'THORN' $? 63 'times' $* 42