mathiasbynens / mathiasbynens/he
Feature request: Add optional support for ISO-8859-1 characters
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Description
Taking my source from https://www.freeformatter.com/html-entities.html
I am working with strings, that have HTML entities coming from the ISO-8859-1 table, like á and he.decode() doesn't transform that and there also isn't any option to enable this optionally.
I understand the list of characters will make the source code larger, so it might be an optional submodule for handling these types of characters.
Example string I have:
BEFORE
& Lepiaca penová páska
AFTER
& Lepiaca penová páska
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Start at the he.decode() entry point and inspect how the current HTML entity table is represented. Determine how optional ISO-8859-1 support could be exposed without making the default source unnecessarily larger. Done means the example string decodes its ISO-8859-1 entities when the optional support is enabled.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- web-dev
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
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- 3-5 days
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