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Bug 162041 - Please support all HTML named entities and HTML escapes
Please support all HTML named entities and HTML escapes
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: doxygen
Classification: Other
Component: documentation
1.2.x
Other Windows
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Dimitri van Heesch
Dimitri van Heesch
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2004-12-23 00:39 UTC by George Rhoten
Modified: 2008-09-07 13:34 UTC
See Also:
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Description George Rhoten 2004-12-23 00:39:27 UTC 
We would like to put various Unicode characters into our documentation so that 
the generated HTML output shows the correct characters. Unfortunately, HTML 
escapes like æ and æ are not supported in doxygen, but É is 
parsed correctly in doxygen.

Our documentation tends to use a lot of Unicode characters. So support for HTML 
escapes, instead of named entities, would be the best solution.

The lack of consistent support for this feature causes some problems when our 
documentation is trying to use non-English words. Instead of showing the real 
character, it outputs the literal character escape. Since the doxygen outputs 
the pages in iso-8859-1, we can't use utf-8 directly either. So we can't seem 
to find a work around for this problem.

More documentation on the named entities feature can be found here: 
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/sgml/entities.html

I am currently using version 1.2.18 on Cygwin. I wasn't able to find any 
documentation in the doxygen release notes about this problem being fixed.
Comment 1 George Rhoten 2005-05-16 16:45:15 UTC 
FYI this bug is related to bug 159291.  I need a way to use all Unicode
characters in our documentation.
Comment 2 Dimitri van Heesch 2008-09-07 13:34:50 UTC 
In the meantime doxygen output's everything encoded as UTF-8, so this problem should be solved.