wml::fmt::isolatin(3)

💖 wml::fmt::isolatin — bestie edition 💖

okay so this is wml::fmt::isolatin(3) from the EN Tools fam, and it's literally the cutest little ISO-Latin-1 to HTML entity glow-up you've ever seen. let's get into it 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

wml::fmt::isolatin — ISO-Latin-1 to HTML Entity Conversion

like. it takes your fancy accented letters and turns them into HTML entities. that's the whole vibe. 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#use wml::fmt::isolatin [global]

<isolatin>
Text with ISO latin 1 characters
for instance german umlauts: ``XXXXXXX''
</isolatin>

yes bestie, that [global] in brackets is optional, and the container tag is doing all the heavy lifting. so demure. 🎀

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👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

so what's actually happening here? this creates an area substitution with Pass 6 (that's asubst, iykyk) for all the ISO-Latin-1 characters, swapping each one for its corresponding HTML entity. it's giving translation era. ✨

now here's the tea: this is not really necessary. HTML 3.2 literally says every browser has to understand ISO-Latin-1 characters. so there's no real need to encode them with this container tag. not me pointing out that you don't actually need me 😭

BUT. it is safe, and here's why that matters: the result is 7Bit, and 7Bit can be transferred over more mediums than the 8 Bit version with ISO-Latin-1 characters. so it's the lowkey reliable choice when you don't know what's on the other end of the wire. 🫶

and the glow-up option:

• when you add the global argument, the complete document gets automatically encapsulated into a <isolatin> container. the whole thing. every last byte. main character energy fr fr. 💖

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🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

• Ralf S. Engelschall
• rse@engelschall.com
• www.engelschall.com

iconic. we stan. 👑

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🧚 REQUIRES 🧚

• Internal: P1, P2, P6
• External: --

so it needs the internal passes, and literally nothing external. no cap, zero dependencies on the outside world. slay. 🍓

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• ISO Latin 1 character table

go look at the table bestie, it's the source of truth for all those umlauts. 📖

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heads up: this whole thing is about converting ISO-Latin-1 characters to HTML entities via an area substitution on Pass 6, and the global argument wraps your entire document in <isolatin>. that's it, that's the page. 💜

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mwah 💋 this lil page came from the EN Tools girlies, dated 2020-11-29, and it's the wml::fmt::isolatin(3) manual — thanks for reading, bestie, now go encode something cute. 🌟