[Developers] html entity encoding

[Nick Thompson]

hmm, i think &dquo; should probably be used as well, thanks for
the reality check.

i don't think the default language support in mql is
complete yet.  it's not so much choosing something other
than /lang/en that's the problem - but for practical purposes
what you want is "some preferred language, with fallback to /lang/en".
it's that fallback part that's tricky.
i think it's safe to say that it will be set with the "lang" parameter
in the envelope once it's ready though.

     nick

David Flanagan wrote:
> Nick Thompson wrote:
>> it also escapes " to &dquo; so that the returned values
>> are safe in html attribute values as well as in html text.
>>
>>      nick
> 
> Not according to my tests, it doesn't. Run this query on sandbox:
> 
> {"guid":"#9202a8c04000641f80000000082ef550",
>   "name":null}
> 
> You'll see that &,<, and > are escaped in the name, but " is only given 
> a JSON backslash in the response, not &dquo;
> 
> Nick, you're probably the one to ask (changing the subject here) whether 
> mqlread has some way of specifying a default language (other than 
> /lang/en) for names.  Is there an envelope parameter or HTTP header for 
> this yet?
> 
> 	David
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