How about supporting things like &gt and &lt in inline text? It saves hassle trying to figure out how to do things like "<"ahem">" or "<"grin">", not to mention (C) (copyright - &copyright), (TM) (trademark - &trademark) etc. Excuse the ""'s please - there's no other way to represent the < and > together in a character sequence that does not include whitespace.

Come to think of it, since we've got an extension that does conversion of emoticons from to a smiley face, why not support (C) and (TM) (and others?), as character sequences to be replaced by the appropriate character code.

-- DavidLeBlanc - 23 Mar 2001

Character Entities that Work (don't forget the ";")

& &amp;

< &lt;

> &gt;

© &copy;

® &reg;

§ &sect;

¶ &para;

± &plusmn;

¿ &iquest;

µ &micro;

× &times;

° &anpdeg;

Character Entities that Don't Work

(Most of these are listed on the web page referenced below -- I don't know why they don't work)

← &larr;

→

↑

↓

↵

⇐

⇒

⇑

⇓

&crArr;

∞

™ &trade; -- this is listed (under greek letters, for some reason), not sure why it doesn't work

I moved this to FeatureDone mostly as a point for documentation.

-- DavidLeBlanc - 25 Mar 2001

And thousands more!(??)

Here's one of many references on the WEB: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/sgml/entities.html#iso-88591

-- JohnTalintyre - 25 Mar 2001

(Refactored by -- RandyKramer - 25 Mar 2001)