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Alexander Žaťko

controlling character encoding when converting instance into HTML

I constructed a form that contains a couple of text areas. The users
populate these mostly by copying text from Word. This text includes
all kinds of high ASCII chars like bullets, curly quotes and such.
These chars do not show correctly on a html page that I build from
the instance using an XSLT processor.

For example a bullet shows as
(see attachment if not shown in-line). I think I will have to set
proper encodings somewhere and was hoping that somebody on this list
might shed some light at this for me.
Just placing:

<xhtml:meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=utf-8"/>

...into the <head> html element does not help.

Thanks

A.

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Jay Klehr

RE: controlling character encoding when converting instance into HTML

You should look into using the FCKEditor, it has a "paste from word" option that usually takes care of a lot of those special html entities and other word peculiarities.

Jay

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From: Alexander Zatko [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: Wed 8/30/2006 1:17 PM
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Subject: [ops-users] controlling character encoding when converting instance into HTML

I constructed a form that contains a couple of text areas. The users
populate these mostly by copying text from Word. This text includes
all kinds of high ASCII chars like bullets, curly quotes and such.
These chars do not show correctly on a html page that I build from
the instance using an XSLT processor.

For example a bullet shows as

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Erik Bruchez

Re: controlling character encoding when converting instance into HTML

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Note that the FCKEditor is enabled in OPS when you use
xforms:textarea/mediatype="text/html".

But Alex's issue may be related to something else. OPS is meant to
handle Unicode encodings, typically UTF-8, end to end, so his issue is a
little surprising.

-Erik

Jay Klehr wrote:

> You should look into using the FCKEditor, it has a "paste from word" option that usually takes care of a lot of those special html entities and other word peculiarities.
>
> Jay
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: Alexander Zatko [mailto:[hidden email]]
> Sent: Wed 8/30/2006 1:17 PM
> To: [hidden email]
> Subject: [ops-users] controlling character encoding when converting instance into HTML
>
>
>
> I constructed a form that contains a couple of text areas. The users
> populate these mostly by copying text from Word. This text includes
> all kinds of high ASCII chars like bullets, curly quotes and such.
> These chars do not show correctly on a html page that I build from
> the instance using an XSLT processor.
>
> For example a bullet shows as

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Alexander Žaťko

Re: controlling character encoding when converting instance into HTML

I figured out what was the problem. I did not set the proper encoding
on the <part> element so the mail processor used the default
iso-8859-1. A clear case of the RTFM :-)

thanks

A.

On Aug 30, 2006, at 3:46 PM, Erik Bruchez wrote:

> Note that the FCKEditor is enabled in OPS when you use
> xforms:textarea/mediatype="text/html".
>
> But Alex's issue may be related to something else. OPS is meant to
> handle Unicode encodings, typically UTF-8, end to end, so his issue
> is a little surprising.
>
> -Erik
>
> Jay Klehr wrote:
>> You should look into using the FCKEditor, it has a "paste from
>> word" option that usually takes care of a lot of those special
>> html entities and other word peculiarities.
>> Jay
>> ________________________________
>> From: Alexander Zatko [mailto:[hidden email]]
>> Sent: Wed 8/30/2006 1:17 PM
>> To: [hidden email]
>> Subject: [ops-users] controlling character encoding when
>> converting instance into HTML
>> I constructed a form that contains a couple of text areas. The
>> users populate these mostly by copying text from Word. This text
>> includes all kinds of high ASCII chars like bullets, curly quotes
>> and such. These chars do not show correctly on a html page that I
>> build from the instance using an XSLT processor.
>> For example a bullet shows as
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