====== Entities ======

[[DokuWiki]] can convert various character combinations to their typographical equivalent.

e.g. <code>
<<  to « 
>>  to » 
=>  to ⇒
</code>

see also [[syntax#typography]].

Details of the conversions are stored in the ''conf/entities.conf'' file.  You can add your own entity conversions by creating a ''conf/entities.local.conf'' file and placing your conversions in that file.  It is possible to modify Dokuwiki's ''conf/entities.conf'' file, however this could result in your changes being overwritten when upgrading Dokuwiki.

====== Examples ======

> It seems that it is possible to use this table to adapt DokuWiki to some French typography rules that necessitate non-breaking spaces before or after some punctuation marks. For example, in the ''conf/entities.conf'' file, I write rules like this:

  << &laquo;&nbsp;
  ? &nbsp;?
  : &nbsp;:
  ! &nbsp;!
  ; &nbsp;;

> To use typography for [[wp>esperanto|esperanto]] x-writing:

  cx	─Й
  Cx	─И
  CX	─И
  gx	─Э
  Gx	─Ь
  GX	─Ь
  hx	─е
  Hx	─д
  HX	─д
  jx	─╡
  Jx	─┤
  JX	─┤	
  sx	┼Э
  Sx	┼Ь
  SX	┼Ь
  ux	┼н
  Ux	┼м
  UX	┼м

>>The typography for esperanto writing did not show right in the code section above; for those interested these are the characters as they should be displayed: (--- //[[visuallucho_plusplus@yahoo.es|'Ryan Chappelle']] 2008/05/28 06:04//)
  CX  Ĉ     cx   ĉ
  GX  Ĝ     gx   ĝ
  HX  Ĥ     hx   ĥ
  JX  Ĵ     jx   ĵ
  SX  Ŝ     sx   ŝ
  UX  Ŭ     ux   ŭ

====== File Edition ======

As said in entities.conf, you can use HTML entities to configure your entities, but it is not recommended, because it may break non-HTML rendering.
So, UTF-8 chars are used directly instead. To achieve this, please either use an UTF-8 compliant text editor, like [[SourceForge>projects/notepad-plus|notepad++]]; or an hexadecimal editor, like [[SourceForge>projects/hexplorer/|hexplorer]] and an [[http://www.unicode.org/Public/5.2.0/ucd/|UTF-8 character map]]. However regular text editors should **NOT** be used for this, since some characters used by UTF-8 encoding are not reachable through a regular keyboard.

As instance, the equivalent for ≠ (HTML: &ne;) char in UTF-8 is 0xE2; 0x89; 0xA0; and 0xA0 shows as a regular space even if it's not one.
Also, do **NOT** try to calculate UTF-8 yourself without any clue about what UTF-8 is, or your entities might not work.