HTML entities

[Peter T. Evensen]

You could set the htmlText of an invisible field and then get the text of 
that field to translate.

At 07:49 PM 5/29/2006, you wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>I have a field of data that I want to format into a web page. The data
>can contain symbols, most likely just the degree symbol but possibly
>others. If I get the htmltext of the field, it gives me the correct
>entity for the degree symbol: °
>
>However I don't want to use the htmltext, since I am building my own
>table display from the data. Is there a way to translate a symbol to
>it's html entity? I suppose I could just use a lookup table of the
>likely candidates and loop through them, replacing as necessary, but
>since Rev "knows" the entities, I was hoping there was a function that
>I haven't spotted, to get them directly.
>
>TIA,
>Sarah
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Peter T. Evensen
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