[Zope-dev] Yet more unicode and page template weirdness

[Chris Withers]

On 13/10/2010 13:47, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 08:53:08AM +0100, Chris Withers wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> In Zope 2.12, try putting the following in a TTW ZPT:
>>
>> <tal:c content="&#8250;"/>
>
> Are you sure you didn't mean
>
>    <tal:c content="string:&#8250;"/>

Ah, d'oh! Thanks for the catch!

> The way XML works, all entities in an attribute value are decoded before
> being interpreted, so your TALES interpreter gets an expression
> u'\u203a' which it then fails to interpret.

Makes sense, thanks! What about entities outside of attributes?

Chris

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