---
name: "wml::fmt::isolatin"
section: "3"
platform: "linux"
package: "wml"
version: "2.32.0~ds1-1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/wml::fmt::isolatin"
---

# wml::fmt::isolatin(3)

ISO-Latin-1 to HTML Entity Conversion

## NAME

wml::fmt::isolatin - ISO-Latin-1 to HTML Entity Conversion

## SYNOPSIS

```
  #use wml::fmt::isolatin [global]
  <isolatin>
  Text with ISO latin 1 characters
  for instance german umlauts: ``XXXXXXX''
  </isolatin>
```

## DESCRIPTION

This creates an area substitution with Pass 6 (asubst) for all ISO-Latin-1 characters to their corresponding HTML entities. Note that this is not really necessary because HTML 3.2 states that every browser has to understand ISO-Latin-1 characters. So there is no real need to encode them with this container tag. But it is safe, because the result is 7Bit which can be transferred over more mediums then the 8 Bit version with ISO-Latin-1 characters.

When adding the `"global"` argument, the complete document gets automatically encapsulated into a `"<isolatin>"` container.

## AUTHOR

```
 Ralf S. Engelschall
 rse@engelschall.com
 www.engelschall.com
```

## REQUIRES

```
 Internal: P1, P2, P6
 External: --
```

## SEE ALSO

ISO Latin 1 character table