Re: Latin Characters

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1998


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 21384
interpreted = N
texte = El 11/30/98 11:40 AM PCS Technical Support support2@smithmicro.com Escribi#243#>>I already have this meta tag in the header section, I can see all the >>foreign characters in the page (HTML) except the ones that come from the >>data base, between the [foundItems] tag, the Category products searched in >>the DB file come with extrange characters instead of the ones I have in >>the db file. > >How did you enter the Latin characters into the database? If you open the >db file using a text editor, do you see the correct characters? Since >there is no difference between HTML text and text that comes from a field >in a database, I must assume that the characters in the db file are >incorrect. It is possible to construct a conversion table and use >[ConvertChars] to change the characters on-the-fly, but it requires that >you know exactly how to match up the letters from the two character sets. > No, If I open the db file with a text editor I can see all the correct characters, for example the word m#250#sica but in the list of the categories in the browser after a search, it shows m#166#sica instead. Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: Latin Characters (listas 1998)
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  6. Re: Latin Characters (Christer Olsson 1998)
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El 11/30/98 11:40 AM PCS Technical Support support2@smithmicro.com Escribi#243#>>I already have this meta tag in the header section, I can see all the >>foreign characters in the page (HTML) except the ones that come from the >>data base, between the [founditems] tag, the Category products searched in >>the DB file come with extrange characters instead of the ones I have in >>the db file. > >How did you enter the Latin characters into the database? If you open the >db file using a text editor, do you see the correct characters? Since >there is no difference between HTML text and text that comes from a field >in a database, I must assume that the characters in the db file are >incorrect. It is possible to construct a conversion table and use >[convertchars] to change the characters on-the-fly, but it requires that >you know exactly how to match up the letters from the two character sets. > No, If I open the db file with a text editor I can see all the correct characters, for example the word m#250#sica but in the list of the categories in the browser after a search, it shows m#166#sica instead. listas

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