Re: Euro is not converted into HTML 4.01 standard

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David Michael

Posted: 09/24/2004 5:49:20

Pieter,

I ran into a similar problem with posting certain characters to blogs.

I found this page:

http://www.primeshop.com/html/jump3b.htm

It has an almost comprehensive list of special characters and their HTML

encoding. I used the page's information to create a procedure that takes the

HTML output from TRVE and replaces the special characters with their

encoding. It was a bit tedious pulling the information together, but was

otherwise a pretty simple thing to do.

-David

"Pieter E." <[email protected]> wrote in message

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> Dear Sergey Tkachenko,

> I thought these special characters were part of the HTML 4.01 standard.

I'm

> not sure about it.

> I found the following link for ISO-8859-1:

> http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_entitiesref.asp

> Standard HTML webpages which are creates in DreamWeaver are using this

ISO-type.

> My application work also that way.

> Maybe you could inform me.

> Thanks.

> Pieter E.

> "Sergey Tkachenko" <[email protected]> wrote:

> >As far as I understand, HTML specification does not require to replace

these

> >characters by character entities like ? It's optional. Please correct

> >me if I wrong.

> >The only case when it makes sense to convert them - if they are not

present

> >in the main HTML document charset.

> >

> >By the way, this character has different codes in different charsets (if

> you

> >do not use Unicode).

> >For example, in ANSI_CHARSET it's $80, in RUSSIAN_CHARSET - $88

> >

> >>

> >> When I insert an eurosign ('?') in RichViewEdit, everything works

> >correctly.

> >> My problem is when I save this page to a HTML-file. The eurosign is not

> >converted

> >> to the HTML 4.01 standard '?'. There are much more signs which aren't

> >> converted when I save to a HTML-file (For example

> >��

> >> and more...)

> >> Is there a solution?

> >>

> >> Thanks.

> >>

> >> Pieter E.

> >>

> >