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Update gitignore with post-release files, new NEWS entry and spellcheck UTF-8.

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Signed-off-by: Edward Z. Yang <edwardzyang@thewritingpot.com>
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library/HTMLPurifier/DefinitionCache/Serializer/*/
library/standalone/
library/HTMLPurifier.standalone.php
library/HTMLPurifier*.tgz
library/package*.xml
configdoc/*.html
configdoc/configdoc.xml
docs/doxygen*
*.phpt.diff
*.phpt.exp
*.phpt.log

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@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ NEWS ( CHANGELOG and HISTORY ) HTMLPurifier
. Internal change
==========================
3.3.0, unknown release date
3.2.0, released 2008-10-31
# Using %Core.CollectErrors forces line number/column tracking on, whereas
previously you could theoretically turn it off.

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@ -481,7 +481,7 @@ if we don't know it's character encoding? And how do we figure out
the character encoding, if we don't know the contents of the
<code>META</code> tag?</p>
<p>Fortunantely for us, the characters we need to write the
<p>Fortunately for us, the characters we need to write the
<code>META</code> are in ASCII, which is pretty much universal
over every character encoding that is in common use today. So,
all the web-browser has to do is parse all the way down until
@ -526,7 +526,7 @@ you don't have to use those user-unfriendly entities.</p>
<h3 id="whyutf8-user">User-friendly</h3>
<p>Websites encoded in Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) which ocassionally need
<p>Websites encoded in Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) which occasionally need
a special character outside of their scope often will use a character
entity reference to achieve the desired effect. For instance, &theta; can be
written <code>&amp;theta;</code>, regardless of the character encoding's
@ -584,7 +584,7 @@ disappeared off the web, so I am linking to the Web Archive copy.)</p>
<h4 id="whyutf8-forms-urlencoded"><code>application/x-www-form-urlencoded</code></h4>
<p>This is the Content-Type that GET requests must use, and POST requests
use by default. It involves the ubiquituous percent encoding format that
use by default. It involves the ubiquitous percent encoding format that
looks something like: <code>%C3%86</code>. There is no official way of
determining the character encoding of such a request, since the percent
encoding operates on a byte level, so it is usually assumed that it
@ -674,7 +674,7 @@ it up to the module iconv to do the dirty work.</p>
<p>This approach, however, is not perfect. iconv is blithely unaware
of HTML character entities. HTML Purifier, in order to
protect against sophisticated escaping schemes, normalizes all character
and numeric entitie references before processing the text. This leads to
and numeric entity references before processing the text. This leads to
one important ramification:</p>
<p><strong>Any character that is not supported by the target character
@ -770,7 +770,7 @@ the text when you try to convert it to UTF-8. You'll have to convert
it to a binary field, convert it to a Shift-JIS field (the real encoding),
and then finally to UTF-8. Many a website had pages irreversibly mangled
because they didn't realize that they'd been deluding themselves about
the character encoding all along, don't become the next victim.</p>
the character encoding all along; don't become the next victim.</p>
<p>For <a href="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/multibyte.html">PostgreSQL</a>, there appears to be no direct way to change the
encoding of a database (as of 8.2). You will have to dump the data, and then reimport
@ -790,7 +790,7 @@ usually supported).</p>
<h4 id="migrate-db-binary">Binary</h4>
<p>Due to the abovementioned compatibility issues, a more interoperable
<p>Due to the aforementioned compatibility issues, a more interoperable
way of storing UTF-8 text is to stuff it in a binary datatype.
<code>CHAR</code> becomes <code>BINARY</code>, <code>VARCHAR</code> becomes
<code>VARBINARY</code> and <code>TEXT</code> becomes <code>BLOB</code>.
@ -917,8 +917,8 @@ anyway. So we'll deal with the other two edge cases.</p>
would like to read your website but get heaps of question marks or
other meaningless characters. Fixing this problem requires the
installation of a font or language pack which is often highly
dependent on what the language is. <a href="http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%89%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AA%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A1%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BE:Bangla_script_display_help">Here is an example</a>
of such a help file for the Bengali language, I am sure there are
dependent on what the language is. <a href="http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%89%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AA%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A1%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BE:Bangla_script_display_and_input_help">Here is an example</a>
of such a help file for the Bengali language; I am sure there are
others out there too. You just have to point users to the appropriate
help file.</p>
@ -928,7 +928,7 @@ help file.</p>
characters embedded in what otherwise would be very bland ASCII are
letters of the
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet">International
Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)</a>, use to designate pronounciations in a very standard
Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)</a>, use to designate pronunciations in a very standard
manner (you probably see them all the time in your dictionary). Your
average font probably won't have support for all of the IPA characters
like &#664; (bilabial click) or &#658; (voiced postalveolar fricative).
@ -941,11 +941,11 @@ most widely used browser in the entire world? Microsoft IE 6
is not smart enough to borrow from other fonts when a character isn't
present, so more often than not you'll be slapped with a nice big &#65533;.
To get things to work, MSIE 6 needs a little nudge. You could configure it
to use a different font to render the text, but you can acheive the same
to use a different font to render the text, but you can achieve the same
effect by selectively changing the font for blocks of special characters
to known good Unicode fonts.</p>
<p>Fortunantely, the folks over at Wikipedia have already done all the
<p>Fortunately, the folks over at Wikipedia have already done all the
heavy lifting for you. Get the CSS from the horses mouth here:
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Common.css">Common.css</a>,
and search for &quot;.IPA&quot; There are also a smattering of
@ -972,7 +972,7 @@ users.</p>
<h3 id="migrate-variablewidth">Dealing with variable width in functions</h3>
<p>When people claim that PHP6 will solve all our Unicode problems, they're
misinformed. It will not fix any of the abovementioned troubles. It will,
misinformed. It will not fix any of the aforementioned troubles. It will,
however, fix the problem we are about to discuss: processing UTF-8 text
in PHP.</p>
@ -1035,7 +1035,7 @@ directory.</p>
<p>Well, that's it. Hopefully this document has served as a very
practical springboard into knowledge of how UTF-8 works. You may have
decided that you don't want to migrate yet: that's fine, just know
what will happen to your output and what bug reports you may recieve.</p>
what will happen to your output and what bug reports you may receive.</p>
<p>Many other developers have already discussed the subject of Unicode,
UTF-8 and internationalization, and I would like to defer to them for