Re: Bug in capitalize ... ?
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 2003
It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 53483
interpreted = N
texte = Or, if it's something that will occur a lot in the one place, say a'surname' coming from a database, you could do this:[capitalize][GetChars start=3D1&end=3D1][surname][/GetChars][/capitalize][!][/!][GetChars start=3D2][surname][/GetChars]Regards,Tim> From: Brian Fries
> Reply-To: (WebDNA Talk)> Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 09:02:40 -0700> To: (WebDNA Talk)> Subject: Re: Bug in capitalize ... ?>=20> HTML entities won't help Ken's problem...>=20> [capitalize]peña[/capitalize]>=20> shows up as Pe=D1A, as the "n" in ñ gets capitalized, resulting in> Ñ>=20> The fix would be for WebDNA to support a delimiters param to> [capitalize].>=20> In the meantime, you could play with listwords, specifying the> delimiter, then capitalizing only the first character.>=20> - brian>=20> On Friday, October 17, 2003, at 07:04 AM, John Peacock wrote:>=20>> Kenneth Grome wrote:>>=20>>> Why does webdna make the letter 'a' uppercase when I put a>>> [capitalize] context around this word?>>> Pe=F1A>>> The =F1 is definitely not the last letter in the word, which means>>> [capitalize] should make it lowercase, not uppercase.>>=20>> Letters in Latin-1 are limited to a-zA-Z. "=F1" is an extended ASCII>> character in the Latin-1 character set, and hence fouls up the logic>> of [capitalize]. It is a bug only in the sense that it doesn't do>> what _you_ expected it to do. It is not a bug in the sense that>> anyone who expects extended ASCII characters to be handled>> consistently by all browsers is going to be massively mistaken.>>=20>> Don't use extended ASCII; always use HTML entities (in this case>> ñ).>>=20>> John>>=20>> --=20>> John Peacock>>=20> -- Brian Fries, BrainScan Software -- http://www.brainscansoftware.com> -->=20>=20> -------------------------------------------------------------> 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/-------------------------------------------------------------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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Or, if it's something that will occur a lot in the one place, say a'surname' coming from a database, you could do this:[capitalize][GetChars start=3D1&end=3D1][surname][/GetChars][/capitalize][!][/!][GetChars start=3D2][surname][/GetChars]Regards,Tim> From: Brian Fries > Reply-To: (WebDNA Talk)> Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 09:02:40 -0700> To: (WebDNA Talk)> Subject: Re: Bug in capitalize ... ?>=20> HTML entities won't help Ken's problem...>=20> [capitalize]peña[/capitalize]>=20> shows up as Pe=D1A, as the "n" in ñ gets capitalized, resulting in> Ñ>=20> The fix would be for WebDNA to support a delimiters param to> [capitalize].>=20> In the meantime, you could play with listwords, specifying the> delimiter, then capitalizing only the first character.>=20> - brian>=20> On Friday, October 17, 2003, at 07:04 AM, John Peacock wrote:>=20>> Kenneth Grome wrote:>>=20>>> Why does webdna make the letter 'a' uppercase when I put a>>> [capitalize] context around this word?>>> Pe=F1A>>> The =F1 is definitely not the last letter in the word, which means>>> [capitalize] should make it lowercase, not uppercase.>>=20>> Letters in Latin-1 are limited to a-zA-Z. "=F1" is an extended ASCII>> character in the Latin-1 character set, and hence fouls up the logic>> of [capitalize]. It is a bug only in the sense that it doesn't do>> what _you_ expected it to do. It is not a bug in the sense that>> anyone who expects extended ASCII characters to be handled>> consistently by all browsers is going to be massively mistaken.>>=20>> Don't use extended ASCII; always use HTML entities (in this case>> ñ).>>=20>> John>>=20>> --=20>> John Peacock>>=20> -- Brian Fries, BrainScan Software -- http://www.brainscansoftware.com> -->=20>=20> -------------------------------------------------------------> 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/-------------------------------------------------------------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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