Re: textarea to page display

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1998


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 17238
interpreted = N
texte = >>How can I collect information from a textarea field on a form page, and >>then immediately display that information *WITH* the formatting intact -- >>on the very next page? Is there any way to do this WITHOUT using 
>>tags?>>Huh? What formatting are you talking about? Just linebreaks or what?Yes, just carriage returns typed into the textarea field, that's all.>If so, just use [CONVERTCHARS].Well, [convertchars] is the first thing I tried -- and it does *not* work.There's apparently something screwed up in the standardconversions.db -- or in the code that does the actual conversions. The reason I say this is because even though I use the original standardconversions.db on my system without any changes whatsoever, [convertchars] changes 1 to Ç ... and 2 to ? ... and who knows how many other characters it's changing *improperly* that I have not been lucky enough to notice?Because of this apparent bug, I cannot simply put %0D into the standardconversions.db, so I had to create a  SPECIALconversions.db and put only a couple of conversions into it:from to%0B 
%0D 
At least this seems to work for my particular needs.  But it certainly does not solve the problem WebCat is having with the standardconversions.db changing 1's and 2's to Ç's and ?'s when I really do not think it should be doing that. Can someone check into this and tell me if I've discovered a bug?Also, on a related topic, does anyone know where I can get a list of all those escaped-ASCII characters such as Carriage Return (%0D), Soft-Return (%0B), Tab (%09), etc. ?Are these by chance the same characters shown in Tex-Edit as beginning with $ instead of % ... or are those something else entirely? The reason I'm not sure about this is because the ones in Tex-Edit all begin with $, while the few which are shown in the HTML documentation (and included in the stabdardconversions.db) begin with % instead.Please can someone clarify this for me?Sincerely,Ken Grome808-737-6499WebDNA Solutionsmailto:ken@webdna.nethttp://www.webdna.net





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>>How can I collect information from a textarea field on a form page, and>>then immediately display that information *WITH* the formatting intact -->>on the very next page?  Is there any way to do this WITHOUT using 
>>tags?>>Huh? What formatting are you talking about? Just linebreaks or what?Yes, just carriage returns typed into the textarea field, that's all.>If so, just use [convertchars].Well, [convertchars] is the first thing I tried -- and it does *not* work.There's apparently something screwed up in the standardconversions.db -- or in the code that does the actual conversions. The reason I say this is because even though I use the original standardconversions.db on my system without any changes whatsoever, [convertchars] changes 1 to Ç ... and 2 to ? ... and who knows how many other characters it's changing *improperly* that I have not been lucky enough to notice?Because of this apparent bug, I cannot simply put %0D into the standardconversions.db, so I had to create a  SPECIALconversions.db and put only a couple of conversions into it:from to%0B 
%0D 
At least this seems to work for my particular needs.  But it certainly does not solve the problem WebCat is having with the standardconversions.db changing 1's and 2's to Ç's and ?'s when I really do not think it should be doing that. Can someone check into this and tell me if I've discovered a bug?Also, on a related topic, does anyone know where I can get a list of all those escaped-ASCII characters such as Carriage Return (%0D), Soft-Return (%0B), Tab (%09), etc. ?Are these by chance the same characters shown in Tex-Edit as beginning with $ instead of % ... or are those something else entirely? The reason I'm not sure about this is because the ones in Tex-Edit all begin with $, while the few which are shown in the HTML documentation (and included in the stabdardconversions.db) begin with % instead.Please can someone clarify this for me?Sincerely,Ken Grome808-737-6499WebDNA Solutionsmailto:ken@webdna.nethttp://www.webdna.net



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