> [Aahz]
>> Someone just pointed out on c.l.py that we need an HTMLescape() function
>> that takes a string and converts special characters to entities. I'm
>> not on python-dev, so could you please forward this and find out whether
>> I need to run a PEP?
>
> Has someone pointed out yet that this is done by cgi.escape()?
Yeah, I missed that earlier. But after thinking some more, there are a
fair number of browser-like bits of software that fail to render many of
the special characters correctly (e.g. trademark). This is frequently
due to character set issues; entities almost always render correctly,
though. Therefore a general translation routine is probably handy.
cgi.escape() only handles "&", "<", ">". I'm not sure whether cgi.escape
ought to be expanded to handle all characters or a new routine should be
added. Martin van Loewis suggested xml.sax.saxutils.escape(), but I
have zero familiarity with XML and am waiting for 2.0final. Perhaps
this should be taken off-line?
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