character-entities

Tab Character Entity for XHTML?

Does anyone know what the character entity for a tab is in xhtml? (Um if there is one)... ...

Is there a Java XML API that can parse a document without resolving character entities?

I have program that needs to parse XML that contains character entities. The program itself doesn't need to have them resolved, and the list of them is large and will change, so I want to avoid explicit support for these entities if I can. Here's a simple example: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <xml>Hello there &something;</xm...

Is it necessary to use character entities for quotes in HTML?

I understand the need for &amp;, &lt;, etc. But is &quot; necessary? I suppose it could be useful inside tag attributes, but inside the text, outside any tag, is it necessary? ...

Encoding xml using ascii encoding instead of character entities

Alright, so here is my issue. I need to generate xml in Java to pass onto another application. I started off thinking this would be easy using an org.w3c.dom.Document. Unfortunately the application I need to pass the XML off to requires that special characters like " need to be encoded as ASCII (&#034;) instead of their character entity ...

Does .NET have built-in functions mapping between character entities and their unicode values?

& Eacute ; \u00C9 & egrave ; \u00E8 & eacute ; \u00E9 & apos ; \u0027 something like: f("&apos;") = '\u0027' where f :: string -> char g('\u0027') = "&apos;" where g :: char -> string Or is there a third-party library with a BSD or MIT style permissive free license with something of this sort? Otherwise I'll have to create my ...

Turning HTML character entities to 'regular' letters... why is it only partially working?

I'm using all of the below to take a field called 'code' from my database, get rid of all the HTML entities, and print it 'as usual' to the site: <?php $code = preg_replace('~&#x([0-9a-f]+);~ei', 'chr(hexdec("\\1"))', $code); $code = preg_replace('~&#([0-9]+);~e', 'chr("\\1")', $code); $code = html_entity_decode($code); ?> H...

What's the HTML character entity for the # sign?

What's the HTML character entity for the # sign? I've looked around for "pound" (keeps returning the currency), and "hash" and "number", but what I try doesn't seem to turn into the right character. ...

Seeing strange character for apostrophe on wordpress based page, but only in Internet Explorer

I'm gettign this strange character instead of an apostrophe on a page that's powered by Wordpress, but only in Internet Explorer. Other browsers (chrome, firefox) display as the actual apostrophe. ’ Can somebody tell me what the problem is? Here's the instance in question: http://cure.org/about/management-team/ You'll see under Dal...