character entities in news groups

[lianciana]

Hi,

I'd like to know more about the possible use of character entities in
eg: google groups,

Is it possible to use these without using a newsreader directly?
Outside of the usual ASCII characters I mean.

TIA

[David Dorward]

li*******@gmail.com wrote:

I'd like to know more about the possible use of character entities in
eg: google groups,

What about them? Usenet is a plain text medium (well, mostly). Google Groups
is an HTML interface to it. Character entities aren't used. If you want to
use a character you just type it and ensure that your newsreader (and
Google Groups is a newsreader - just not a very good one) encodes it
according to the character encoding you use (of course you have to use a
character encoding that supports the character).
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[Andy Dingley]

li*******@gmail.com wrote:

I'd like to know more about the possible use of character entities in
eg: google groups,

There's no such thing as "google groups". They're something else
(largely Usenet) presented through a Google-hosted web-based interface
and labelled as "Google groups". Underneath though they're still the
same old ASCII-based format that has been around for decades -- HTML
and character entities are simply inappropriate.

If you mean the use of character entities when posting too and from the
Google Groups web interface, then Google seem to have thought this out
pretty well. They're used when necessary where content is presented to
a browser, but they're not needed when manually entering content.

[Andreas Prilop]

On 18 Jun 2006 li*******@gmail.com wrote:

I'd like to know more about the possible use of character entities in
eg: google groups,
There is no such thing as "Google groups". Google provides a (broken)
web interface to Usenet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet
Try a newsreader!
Is it possible to use these
Not in plain text!
without using a newsreader directly?

This has nothing to do with newsreaders. Plain text has no entities,
HTML text has.

[Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz]

In <11**********************@g10g2000cwb.googlegroups .com>, on
06/18/2006
at 03:18 AM, li*******@gmail.com said:

>I'd like to know more about the possible use of character entities in
eg: google groups,

Unless the group charter specifically permits use of HTML, it would be
a breach of netiquette to use character entities.

You should be okay using MIME with one of the common character sets,
e.g., ISO-8859-1, UTF-8.

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