Re: convert text to html

2015-03-10 12:05 GMT+03:00 Gerard ROBIN <g.robin3@free.fr>:
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 07:43:22AM +0300, Nikolay Pavlov wrote:
>> Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 07:43:22 +0300
>> From: Nikolay Pavlov <zyx.vim@gmail.com>
>> To: "vim_use@googlegroups.com" <vim_use@googlegroups.com>
>> Cc: vim@vim.org
>> Subject: Re: convert text to html
>>
>> 2015-03-10 1:02 GMT+03:00 Gerard ROBIN <g.robin3@free.fr>:
>> > Hello,
>> > to convert file.txt to file.html I use the command:
>> >
>> > :source $VIMRUNTIME/snytax/2html.vim
>> >
>> > it works fine but is it possible to edit a config file to the French
>> > accented characters are taken into account ?
>> >
>> > i.e. é -> &eacute; è -> &eagrave; etc ....
>>
>> What's the point in doing this? AFAIR TOhtml converts file to
>> &encoding encoding which should support these characters (otherwise
>> there is no way for anybody to get them from Vim) and browsers are
>> fine with displaying the resulting file as long as server supplies no
>> (there is appropriate <meta> tag in the resulting HTML) or correct
>> headers.
>>
>> Also I doubt very much anybody will bother with converting
>> specifically to &eacute;, &eagrave;: too much special HTML entities
>> exist, supporting &#N; is much easier. But you may always do
>> post-processing of the file to achieve the needed result.
>
> Thanks for your reply.
> This is not really a problem because a perl one-liner does the trick.
> I asked this question because if vim could do the job, why not enjoy it :)

If I understand the point I may find it beneficial to include such
conversion in my formatvim plugin (which is like 2html.vim, but better
in many aspects: see
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3113). I guess @Ben
Fritz thinks the same.

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