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The characters from an html file lose their accents
Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2013 10:32 pm
by Mag
Hi, all,
I'm getting text from an html file using this code:
set the htmlText of the templateField to thePageContent
put the text of the templateField into textVar
Everything works except accented characters lose their accents, for example instead of "è" it displays "√®"...
Some one has a solution better than this one?
replace "√†" with "à" in fixedText
replace "√®" with "è" in fixedText
replace "√π" with "ù" in fixedText
... and so on...
Re: The characters from an html file lose their accents
Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2013 10:40 pm
by Simon
Hi Mag,
Is the "è" encoded as è or è in the html file?
Simon
Re: The characters from an html file lose their accents
Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2013 12:25 am
by Mag
Hi Simon. One of the html page which I use for tests it reads:
<li><a href="/jobs/it/">Opportunità di lavoro</a></li>
It is this one: http://www.apple.it
Re: The characters from an html file lose their accents
Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2013 1:41 am
by Simon
Hi Mag,
Sorry I can't seem to get it to work either,
I tried different encoding but I keep getting:
à not à
from the line:<li><a href="/jobs/it/">Opportunità di lavoro</a></li> at
http://www.apple.com/it/
Simon
Re: The characters from an html file lose their accents
Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2013 1:49 am
by Mag
Thank you Simon. In the source code there is this text but I don't know what meaning it has...
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type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"
And also don't know if this affects the accented chars in some way...
Re: The characters from an html file lose their accents
Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2013 1:52 am
by Simon
Yes, I tried UTF8 but it made even more of a mess.
Simon
Re: The characters from an html file lose their accents
Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2013 7:12 am
by snm
Try
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set the unicodeText of fld "field" to uniEncode (theFieldContent, "UTF8")
You should get proper text in field.
Marek
Re: The characters from an html file lose their accents
Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2013 1:11 pm
by Mag
It works fine!
Thank you so much Marek and Simon
Re: The characters from an html file lose their accents
Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2013 2:06 pm
by snm
You are always welcome, just ask. Next time you can help somebody.
Marek
Re: The characters from an html file lose their accents
Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2013 1:02 pm
by jaguayo
Hello Mag:
In your post put "√†" for a "à", "√®" for a "è"....
Where can I find the codes for "á", "é", "í", "ó" y "ú"
Thanks.
Joseba
Re: The characters from an html file lose their accents
Posted: Tue Dec 31, 2013 12:31 am
by richmond62
Quick quote from the Livecode documentation:
"Special characters (whose ASCII value is greater than 127) are encoded as HTML entities. LiveCode recognizes the following named entities:
à Á
à á
Acirc;
acirc;
acute;
AElig;
aelig;
Agrave;
agrave;
Aring;
aring;
Atilde;
atilde;
Auml;
auml;
brvbar;
Ccedil;
ccedil;
cedil;
cent;
copy;
curren;
° deg;
divide;
éEacute;
éeacute;
Ecirc;
ecirc;
Egrave;
egrave;
ETH;
eth;
Euml;
euml;
frac12;
frac14;
frac34;
gt;
Iacute;
iacute;
Icirc;
icirc;
iexcl;
Igrave;
igrave;
iquest;
Iuml;
iuml;
laquo;
lt;
macr;
micro;
middot;
nbsp;
not;
Ntilde;
ntilde;
Oacute;
oacute;
Ocirc;
ocirc;
Ograve;
ograve;
ordf;
ordm;
Oslash;
oslash;
Otilde;
otilde;
Ouml;
ouml;
para;
plusmn;
pound;
raquo;
reg;
sect;
shy;
sup1;
sup2;
sup3;
szlig;
THORN;
thorn;
times;
Uacute;
uacute;
Ucirc;
ucirc;
Ugrave;
ugrave;
uml;
Uuml;
uuml;
Yacute;
yacute;
yen;
yuml;
Unicode characters whose numeric value is greater than 255 are encoded as "bignum" entities, with a leading ampersand and trailing semicolon. For example, the Japanese character whose numeric value is 12387 is encoded as "#12387;"."
This is why this stack doesn't do a very good job [attached].
Re: The characters from an html file lose their accents
Posted: Tue Dec 31, 2013 11:07 am
by jaguayo
Thanks Richmond62 !!
With your stack solve the problem.
Thank you very much.
Un saludo.
Joseba