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Comments on HTML entities not showing correctly when editing tag WIKIs.

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HTML entities not showing correctly when editing tag WIKIs.

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I just edited a tag wiki in EE.CD here.

I inserted a table in whose cells appears an HTML entity, namely the "div" symbol "÷". Inside the table that symbol is not rendered, but it is displayed as the corresponding entity, whereas during editing, in the tag WIKI preview pane, it showed up correctly.

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Following the advice of Olin in a comment, I changed the entity to an ndash (–) and the problem disappeared. Funny.

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DIV not appropriate here (3 comments)
DIV not appropriate here
Olin Lathrop‭ wrote 9 months ago
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This is an aside to your valid question here. However, in that tag wiki, div doesn't make any sense. You are trying to give a range of forward voltage for different LEDs. A dash would convey that. The DIV symbol specifically means divide. You're not dividing the two LED voltages.

Lorenzo Donati‭ wrote 9 months ago · edited 9 months ago
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Olin Lathrop‭ Mmm, this is maybe Country specific. I have seen many times that symbol used as a range indicator. I agree that an – could be used too. (...* going to check *...) Indeed I found that the usage is Country specific, and it is common here in Italy for the purpose I used it for. Anyway, I'm going to change it to dashes.

Lorenzo Donati‭ wrote 9 months ago · edited 9 months ago
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Olin Lathrop‭ Strangely enough, with the &ndash; the problem goes away! Maybe there is a restrict range of HTML entities that are supported in that context. It seems strange, anyway.