Using tohtml to translate &amp

[Brian K. White]

On 6/28/2011 3:29 PM, Mike Schwartz wrote:
>> You'll never BELIEVE what Mike Schwartz said here...:
>>>
>>>        I was looking at a table of codes on the Unicode.org website.  I
>>> didn't know what else to call codes like& and', so I called
>>> them unicodes.  Sorry for any confusion.
>>>
>>>        What do the rest of you call codes like these?
>>
>> HTML Character Entities.
>>
>> mark->
>
>       That's a little wordy, but OK.  I'll use that terminology if this topic
> ever comes up again.
>
> Thanks!

You say that like using the wrong terminology for something angers the 
gods or the internet tech pedants but has no intrinsic meaning or 
consequence other than that.

Not knowing the meaning of some word is perfectly understandable.
IE, it's fine that you didn't know what "unicode" means.

Not knowing the word for some concept or thing you know is 
understandable. IE it's fine that you didn't know what strings like 
"Ӓ" are called.

But picking up any old word that happens to be lying around in the area 
and using it for any old random use without having any idea what it 
actually means makes no sense at all to me.

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bkw