Re: [patch][org-entities] More symbols

[Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us>]

Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com> writes:

> Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us> writes:
>
>>> With some scripting, this pulling can be made less laborious but more
>>> complete.
>>
>> Would you be able to get the HTML entities?  Nicolas said that Org
>> "prefers" entity names due to encoding.  I can find the unicode number
>> in Emacs, but not it's name.  This is often the laborious part.
>
> Why use name when it is easier to use the numerical value?  

Don't know.  Here's a quote from earlier.  I personally didn't look
further into it.

>> I wrote:
>> 2. HTML symbols have been tested in Firefox.  In a few cases I
>>    couldn't find a pretty name (like "&pi;") in which case I've
>>    supplied the unicode number (like "&960;").  Is that OK?  (E.g. can
>>    Org produce non-uft8 HTML?)

> Nicolas wrote:
> I think it can: see `org-html-coding-system'. It may be wiser to avoid
> these symbols altogether.



> Something like &#x2014; should be good for —.  (You can get the code
> value by doing the C-u C-x = on the displayed character.)

Irrespective of encoding?

> ,----
> |       character: — (displayed as —) (codepoint 8212, #o20024, #x2014)
> |                                                               ^^^^^^
> |   name: EM DASH
> `----
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I see that the entity names are listed in
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-entity-names/byalpha.html

Right.

Are we having (huge) gaps somewhere worth fixing?

–Rasmus

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