h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

From this conversation - F74406?thread=3210285 (posts #4,7 & 8) Using an external link from 'The Beginning' (A12827388) as an example. I tried to get the external link for Patrick Bronte to show as 'Biography Rev. Patrick Bront�' in the right hand column, but when I tried to use the Title Tag in the coding - TITLE="Biography Rev. Patrick Brontë" (Patrick Brontë) I get the error - "The character '<' cannot be used in an attribute value." Emmily

You can't use entities in attributes. You have to use their unicode equivalents. In this case you'd use ë Patrick Brontë

I haven't checked the site with the special character codes , but we don't have any e umlauts in our language (German, just ä.ö and ü), so maybe that's why ?

It exists in the HTML character code set, so it's clearly of use to someone, not least the good Mr Brontë and his family.

Cross-linking duplicate threads: F24276?thread=3315744

Yes, and anyway, that wasn't the problem Emmily had, was it ? Looks as if I didn't read properly

Jim, that works

If Mr Brunty hadn't changed his name to Brontë in 1802, we wouldn't be having this problem.

Bel and SEF too.

Emmily

Just had a thought Jim - h2g2 links work okay, but should -

"The Bront&euml; Sisiers - Childhood" be

"The Bront&#235; Sisiers - Childhood"

or is Bront&#235; just for external links?

Emmily

make that sisTers

It won't actually matter - in theory, the two mean an identical thing. The HTML entities are safe to use in text, they just don't work in attributes of tags (like the TITLE or ALT attributes). It's because we have a very hacky way of supporting HTML entities (which are, strictly speaking, illegal in XML) to work around a bug we found about 6 years ago in a particular version of Internet Explorer on the Mac.

Bel, changed in all the Entries, goodness knows when I would have eventually noticed that, and the 'i' isn't even that near the 't' on keyboard! D'oh

Jim, glad I don't need to go through and and change them all.

Emmily

It's near enough, only the R in between
IM a typing acrobat, you wouldn't believe the typos I manage

Not on a 'qwerty' keyboard,(http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/k95vtfk.html) there's 'u' & 'y' in between, you must use a different type Bel

Emmily

Not so very different, it's qwertz here, but I think I'm not really awake today

I vaguely remember this same problem causing ructions in Editorial Feedback some time ago.

What&euml;ver (which worked)

had been changed by the subeditor to

<LINK HREF="url" TITLE="What&euml;ver">... (which didn't).

And there were all sorts of confusions.

TRiG.