Cross platform problem with Convertchars
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It keeps the original formatting.
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texte = 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] myconvert.db contains: from to ‘ ' “ ” ? -------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list
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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] myconvert.db contains: from to ‘ ' “ ” ? -------------------------------------------------------------- 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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