[jdom-interest] XHTML issues

[Jason Hunter]

> Yes, including the characters directly and outputting with UTF-8 does 
> work, even just on -b9 (as long as you created your OutputStreamWriter 
> using the right encoding), no need for latest-CVS. I simply have a 
> *preference* for defining them as entities, either named or numerical, 
> and keeping the XHTML source 7-bit clean. I know HTTP is guaranteed 
> 8-bit safe, and browsers should cope, but I also want it to be readily 
> viewable in any text editor, specifically nedit in my case, which 
> doesn't have UTF-8 awareness.

Then you really shouldn't output with UTF-8.  :-)

The ability to add characters for special escaping is what we added 
after beta 9.  In UTF-8 no chars needs to be escaped since it represents 
all of Unicode 2.0.  Our default escape strategy is only to escape what 
can't be represented, but you can override that.

-jh-