Use the HTML Entities settings to specify how to display character entities in the Editor.
To open the Entities page for your HTML file type, go to .
If entity conversion is enabled, WorldServer converts all the character entity references (or numeric entity reference) listed under Entity Mappings that it finds in HTML documents to their character representations. Before writing the target file, WorldServer converts these characters back to their character entity form. For example, if entity conversion is enabled, the character entity reference & in the source file will be displayed as the character & in the Editor. Any occurrence of & will be written as &.
If a character entity is not selected for conversion, the character entity, rather than the character, is used in the Editor.
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| Enable Entity Conversion | Select this check box to enable entity conversion. If you clear this box, WorldServer will show entities as they are and will not convert them to characters in the Editor. |
| Advanced | Click this button to display the Advanced HTML Entity Settings dialog box, where you can specify when characters are converted between entity representation and character representation. |
| Name |
Select a check box in this column to allow character conversion for the set of entities it contains. Click a name to display the entity set in the Entity Mappings column. |
| Type |
Default entities are the standard entity mappings from W3C. Custom entities are entities to which you have made changes. |
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| Add | Click this to display the Add Entity Mapping dialog box where you can add an entity to the set. |
| Edit | Select an entity name and click this to display the Edit Entity Mapping dialog box where you can edit the entity mapping. |
| Remove | Select an entity name and click this to remove the entity from the entity set. |
| Reset | Click to reset all the entities in this entity set to their default settings. |