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RFC: Entity names for square brackets.by demerphq (Chancellor) |
on Jul 19, 2002 at 20:14 UTC ( [id://183434]=monkdiscuss: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Like many monks who dont do a lot of HTML I can rarely remember entity names, and its even rarer that I can remember numeric entities. So while bitching about not being able to remember what the entities are for [ and ] I mentioned that its too bad there wasnt an easier way to do it: Something like [ and ] would be easier to remember for an addled mind than the numbers. Unfortunately tye was watching the CB at the time, and of course he knows im a member of PmDev so his response was "quit bitching and make a patch" or something to that effect anyway. So after pestering tye and ar0n a bit I finally figured out what to patch and wrote a patch for it. (not so hard really) But then the debate arises. There is no recognized name for [ and ]. Most likely because the symbols arent used that much in HTML (outside of our funky taging system here in the Monastery (and other Everything sites)). So the question then becomes what to use? I initially though "sql" and "sqr" but those both have other meanings. Then I reversed it and added a "b" to get "lsqb" and "rsqb". In the meanwhile tye did some research and decided that the name that made the most sense from the Unicode specs would be "lsb" and "rsb" but of course "lsb" suggests "least signifigant bit(s)". So the question is my fellow monks, which one to use?
So reflect monks, reflect... BTWm apologies for quoting the CB w/o permission. If it bothers anyone I'll remove it...
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