HTML entities

exheusden · Post by **exheusden** » Thu Oct 15, 2009 1:24 pm

In HC and SuperCard I wrote a shared script to change accented characters and other special characters in text holders to HTML entities. I could reuse the script (more or less) in Revolution, but I was wondering if there was already a means of doing this. I know the HTMLtext property includes HTML entities capabilities, but I fear that the other aspects of the property will be excessive.

FourthWorld · Post by **FourthWorld** » Thu Oct 15, 2009 4:22 pm

It's hard to say which would be better without seeing your script, but htmlText is pretty nifty. You can parse out what you don't need, and you get all the ISO-8959-1 character entities for free.

Alternatively you could consider putting a lookup table into an array, which would give you pretty fast performance while leaving you in control of the details of what you do with those entities.