On Tuesday 24 October 2006 8:42 pm, Georg Baum wrote: > > What about docbook? Is this always utf8? > > AFAIK docbook files can be encoded in utf8, latin1 and a number of other > encodings, but all relevant tools are able to process utf8.
If we use xml, not if we go with sgml. While in the meeting I found that some of those did not work, because in sgml we have a list of allowed characters and those were not on it. The enconding lists that we have in lib are similar to some of sgml definition (I don't remember if this is the standard terminology but this is the idea) files. python has a dictionary that has the convertion: http://docs.python.org/lib/module-htmlentitydefs.html -- José Abílio
