From: "I. Oppenheim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Jon Freeman wrote: > > > the dissapearing backslash would be a real headache, > > You mean that you have to type \\'a to get \'a ? > That would be a bug in the script that you use to > process the user input.
Thanks, I'd assumed it was HTML and didn't check further. At a quick glance, my problem there appears that mySQL uses the backslash for escape sequences. Easily resolved... > > > plus the lyrics of the song still need to display as > > HTML. > > It is quite simple to write a script that converts e.g. > \'a to á in case you would like to display the > ABC file as HTML. Yes, I can do that easily in both asp and in php using "replace" functions. My worry there is that there are quite a number of possible abc escape sequences. At the moment, with the site being very quiet, that would not be a concern to me but it could be if the site got busier. As it is, we have about 4000 posts to threads, some threads 50+ posts long and a few thousand page views per week. I'd not want to be adding code to convert every post in a thread (most of which don't contain abc) each time the thread is opened. I suppose I could look to converting from abc to HTML when a post is made and changing it back if someone needs to edit a post. And I could leave the abc portion in the song database as abc (we store the abc with w: allignment in a different field to the lyrics - they are just added as W: when an abc/pdf file is requested). But, in view of: > > > Before I made my suggestion, Dave had said he > > intended to use ALT-0224 style which appears to work > > with our abcmps/pdf output, ABCMUS and with HTML. > > There are doubts about how it would work with other > > programs or platforms. > > This will only work reliably with ABC programs that > have implemented the charset feature from the draft > standard. Unfortunately, I don't think that this > feature has been implemented so far. > > To make a long story short: currently the only way to > go is to use \'a style accented letters and to fix your > scripts so that they will deal with it correctly. I think for now, I will hope the charset feature does become implemented in time. It would save a few complications. Thanks, Jon To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html