Mailing List Archive: Little improvement for SimpleHTMLEncoder

Could you add this to a Bugzilla issue so it doesn't get lost in the
never ending pile of e-mail that we all have?

Thanks,
Erik

On Aug 23, 2005, at 11:16 AM, Stefan Wachter wrote:

> Hi all!
>
> The SimpleHTMLEncoder could be improved slightly: all characters
> with code >= 128 should be encoded as character entities. The
> reason is, that the encoder does not know the encoding that is used
> for the response. Therefore it is safer to encode all characters
> beyond ASCII as character entities. Can someone judge this proposal
> and commit it eventually?
>
> Greetings!
> --Stefan
>
>
> default:
> if (c < 128) {
> result.append(c);
> } else {
> result.append("&#").append((int)c).append(";");
> }
>
>