Posted by ChrLipp on Sep 09, 2013; 8:31am
URL: https://discuss.asciidoctor.org/Encoding-of-special-German-Umlaut-characters-in-html-backend-tp548.html

Hello!

I am aware of this thread: http://discuss.asciidoctor.org/German-special-Characters-incompatible-character-encodings-CP850-and-UTF-8-td175.html and therefore create my *.adoc files encoded in UTF-8 without BOM.

When I use the HTML backend I noticed (when looking at the source of the HTML) that the German Umlaut characters (ä, Ä, ö, Ö, ü, Ü, ß) are included in the HTML without any processing.
But in my opinion the chars should be transformed, e.g. ä should become &a uml;  (without the space, see http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_entities.asp)

In my opinion the transformation should also performed within the docbook backend (since this is XML).
What do you think?

Kind regards, Christian