The characters from an html file lose their accents

[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...

[Simon]

Hi Mag,
Is the "è" encoded as è or è in the html file?

Simon

[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

[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

[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...

[Simon]

Yes, I tried UTF8 but it made even more of a mess.

Simon

[snm]

Try

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set the unicodeText of fld "field" to uniEncode (theFieldContent, "UTF8")

You should get proper text in field.

Marek

[Mag]

It works fine!

Thank you so much Marek and Simon

[snm]

You are always welcome, just ask. Next time you can help somebody.

Marek

[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

[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:

Á &Aacute;
Á &aacute;
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].

HTMLer.rev.zip

HTML import

(7.44 KiB) Downloaded 515 times

[jaguayo]

Thanks Richmond62 !!
With your stack solve the problem.
Thank you very much.

Un saludo.

Joseba