A critique of cgi.escape

[Jon Ribbens]

In article <mailman.672.1159275735.10491.python-list at python.org>, Fredrik Lundh wrote:
>> This has nothing to do with character encodings.
> 
> it has *everything* to do with encoding of existing data into HTML
> so it can be safely transported to, and recreated by, an HTML-aware
> client.

I can't tell if you're disagreeing or not. You escape the character
"<" as the sequence of characters "<", for example, because
otherwise the HTML user agent will treat it as the start of a tag and
not as character data. You will notice that the character encoding is
utterly irrelevant to this.

> does the word "information set" mean anything to you?

You would appear to be talking about either game theory, or XML,
neither of which have anything to do with HTML.