Use french special caracters in an XML file.

Damien Girard dam-pro.girard at laposte.net
Fri May 20 09:57:11 EDT 2005


Thanks, I will try (setting the UTF-8). 

Girard Damien
PS: If this work, you helped me.

Le vendredi 20 mai 2005 à 10:47 -0300, Andre Garzia a écrit :
> On May 20, 2005, at 10:38 AM, Damien Girard wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I make a database (in XML), in this database, user can write 
> > information
> > about a lot of things, but I have tried my software, and I see a really
> > nasty bug, and I didn't know how I can solve it.
> >
> > French special characters (éèçàù) doesn't work, I have got a strange
> > return instead of the good characters. (For exemple, é -> é$$)
> >
> > So, I think I need to encode the text, but how I can encode it ? Runrev
> > provide a function that permit to encode text ?
> >
> > This database will treat a lot of data, so this need to be really fast.
> > (Without any encoding, this is really fast.)
> >
> > Thanks.
> 
> Hi Damien,
> 
> you can use some tricks. You can make a UTF-8 (unicode) enabled XML by 
> setting it's encoding attribute to "UTF-8", then pipe your unicode 
> content to it. If you want this to display on Rev text fields then you 
> need to set the unicodetext prop of the field, using put won't work.
> 
> You can convert the diacreticals characters to their HTML entitities 
> (by getting the htmltext prop of the field), escape the ampersand char 
> and put the thing inside the XML, remember to convert back before 
> setting the HTMLText prop of a field.
> 
> You can create your own tagging routine (this is tedious, but it works).
> 
> Cheers
> andre
> PS: did I helped?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> >
> > Damien GIRARD
> >
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