Re: Cross platform problem with Convertchars
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It keeps the original formatting.
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texte = Eddie Z. wrote:> This is the first time I've been stumped in a long time so hopefully someone can> help me:> I'm trying to append some text from a textarea into a db. The problem: the text> is usually copied from Word which means special characters (quote marks,> apostrophes and dashes to name a few). We are using Webcat 4x on NT. I do not> have any problems achieving this using a Mac browser (Netscape or IE). My> problem is on the PC versions of IE. As soon as they come across a special> character, it lops off everything after it. I have tried [convertchars] tags but> they did not work. I set up my own convert db and called it by [convertchars> db=myconvert.db], but neither the Mac nor the PC seem to acknowledge the db. I> have tried to convert the characters to their html version (i.e. ) and to> another character such as turning all quotes into inch marks(). Nothing seems> to work. Any ideas?>> textarea:>
>> append:> [append db=../db/article.db]asku=[asku]&atitle=[convertchars> db=../db/myconvert.db][atitle][/convertchars]&adate=[adate]&a=[convertchars> db=../db/myconvert.db][a][/convertchars][/append]Its usually good to [url][/url] your text to the database..try that and see if it is still lopped off.Donovan>>> myconvert.db contains:> from to> ë '> ì > î > ? ->-- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------<><> Donovan Brooke <><>->ï ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list
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Eddie Z. wrote:> This is the first time I've been stumped in a long time so hopefully someone can> help me:> I'm trying to append some text from a textarea into a db. The problem: the text> is usually copied from Word which means special characters (quote marks,> apostrophes and dashes to name a few). We are using Webcat 4x on NT. I do not> have any problems achieving this using a Mac browser (Netscape or IE). My> problem is on the PC versions of IE. As soon as they come across a special> character, it lops off everything after it. I have tried [convertchars] tags but> they did not work. I set up my own convert db and called it by [convertchars> db=myconvert.db], but neither the Mac nor the PC seem to acknowledge the db. I> have tried to convert the characters to their html version (i.e. ) and to> another character such as turning all quotes into inch marks(). Nothing seems> to work. Any ideas?>> textarea:> >> append:> [append db=../db/article.db]asku=[asku]&atitle=[convertchars> db=../db/myconvert.db][atitle][/convertchars]&adate=[adate]&a=[convertchars> db=../db/myconvert.db][a][/convertchars][/append]Its usually good to [url][/url] your text to the database..try that and see if it is still lopped off.Donovan>>> myconvert.db contains:> from to> ë '> ì > î > ? ->-- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------<><> Donovan Brooke <><>->ï ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/
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