HTML entity escaping?

[David Bovill]

Hi Devin, yes that would work for an app - but this is for Livecode server
- I'm not sure but is there a way to do that with revIgniter - ie create a
field by script and use the functionality that way - this is the old hack
I'm using / found - if anyone finds it useful / can improve on it ( i
should probably use arrays):

*command* text_HtmlEntityEscape @someText, pNotQuotes
> *local* sNum, eNum
> *put* 0 into countNum
> *put* "(&[^;]+;)" into someReg
> *put* html_EntityList (pNotQuotes) into htmlEntities
> *put* html_EntityCharNums (pNotQuotes) into entityCharNums
> *set* the wholematches to true
>
> *repeat**get* matchchunk (someText, someReg, sNum, eNum)
> *if* sNum is not a number *then* *return* empty
> *-- breakpoint -- bug**if* it is false *then* *return* countNum
> *put* char sNum to eNum of someText into foundEntity
> *if* char 1 to 2 of foundEntity = "&#"
> *then**put* char 3 to -2 of foundEntity into cNum
> *if* cNum is not a number
> *then*
> *-- breakpoint -- bug**return* empty
> *end*
> *if*
> *else**put* itemOffset (foundEntity, htmlEntities) into itemNum
> *if* itemNum is 0
> *then*
> *-- next repeat -- infinite loop**end*
> *if**put* item itemNum of entityCharNums into cNum
> *end*
> *if**put* numToChar (cNum) into eChar
>
> *--**put* eChar into char sNum to eNum of someText
>
> *--**add* 1 to countNum
> *end*
> *repeat**return* countNum
> *end* text_HtmlEntityEscape
> *function* html_EntityList pNotQuotes
>
> */**
> * Updated to add "e;*
> * Special characters (whose ASCII value is greater than 127) are encoded
> as HTML entities.*
> * Revolution recognizes the following named entities:*
> * */**get*
> "Á,á,Â,â,´,Æ,æ,À,à,Å,å,Ã,ã,Ä,ä,¦,Ç,ç,¸,¢,©,¤,°,÷,É,é,Ê,ê,È,è,Ð,ð,Ë,ë,&frac12;,&frac14;,&frac34;,>,Í,í,Î,î,¡,Ì,ì,¿,Ï,ï,«,<,¯,µ,·, ,¬,Ñ,ñ,Ó,ó,Ô,ô,Ò,ò,ª,º,Ø,ø,Õ,õ,Ö,ö,¶,±,£,»,®,§,­,&sup1;,&sup2;,&sup3;,ß,Þ,þ,×,Ú,ú,Û,û,Ù,ù,¨,Ü,ü,Ý,ý,¥,&yuml"
>
> *--**put* "&" & comma before it
> *if* pNotQuotes is not true
> *then**put* """ & comma before it
> *end*
> *if**return* it
> *end* html_EntityList
> *function* html_EntityCharNums pNotQuotes
> *get*
> "231,135,229,137,171,174,190,203,136,129,140,204,139,128,138,3,130,141,252,162,169,219,161,214,131,142,230,144,233,143,15,19,232,145,12,11,14,62,234,146,235,148,193,237,147,192,236,149,199,60,248,181,225,202,194,132,150,238,151,239,153,241,152,187,188,175,191,205,155,133,154,166,177,163,200,168,164,4,7,5,6,167,18,21,16,242,156,243,158,244,157,172,134,159,17,20,180,216"
>
> *--**put* 38 & comma before it
> *if* pNotQuotes is not true
> *then**put* 34 & comma before it
> *end*
> *if**return* it
> *end* html_EntityCharNums


On Tue, 8 Jan 2019 at 23:47, Devin Asay via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> David, I assume you mean you want to render the named entity as the proper
> glyph? The way to do that is with the htmlText property.
>
>   set the htmlText of fld “foo” to “The book costs €30."
>
> Devin
>
> On Jan 8, 2019, at 6:53 AM, David Bovill via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com<mailto:use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>>
> wrote:
>
> Is there a way / anyone have a handler to escape named html entities in
> Livecode?
>
>
> Á,á,Â,â,´,Æ,æ,&Agrave...
>
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