BBedit has a "zap gremlins" function that allows you to detect and replace/delete non-conforming characters.
jrs On Oct 23, 2006, at 4:54 PM, Henry Minsky wrote: > I remember there was a script we used at some point called > "domoronizer" > (sp?) from that Autodesk hacker, which could > convert Microsoft charset files to unicode, or at least to > acceptable HTML. > > > > On 10/23/06, P T Withington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Well ’ is an XML entity for a character that is not a unicode >> character (which is why it is displaying as a box), so your source >> XML is broken. The correct XML entity for right single quotation >> mark is ’ or ’. Additionally, if your data is in utf-8, >> then you don't need to write unicode characters as xml entities, they >> can be represented directly in the file. >> >> (Hint: 146 is the cp1252 (aka Windows) code for right single quote. >> Either your data source is not really utf-8, or it has been >> incorrectly converted.) >> >> On 2006-10-23, at 15:37 EDT, James Howe wrote: >> >> > My Laszlo application displays data extracted from XML retrieved >> via >> > HTTP. The XML is encoded using UTF-8. Sometimes some of the >> XML will >> > contain entities with the value ’, which happens to be a >> "close >> > single quote" character, used where an apostrophe would be used, >> e.g. >> > "it’s a shame" for "it's a shame". Whenever my Laszlo app >> > gets XML >> > with this character (and other similar entities like “), my >> app >> > simply displays a empty box for the character. When I first saw >> > this I >> > thought I was having some character mapping problem in my XML, >> but now >> > I'm thinking it's due to the font I'm using. I'm using Windows >> XP to >> > access my app (as will most of my users). Is there a reasonable >> > workaround to this problem that will let these characters display >> > on all >> > platforms that my users might be using? >> > >> > Thanks! >> > -- >> > James Howe >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Laszlo-user mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://www.openlaszlo.org/mailman/listinfo/laszlo-user >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Laszlo-user mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.openlaszlo.org/mailman/listinfo/laszlo-user >> > > > > -- > Henry Minsky > Software Architect > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > Laszlo-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.openlaszlo.org/mailman/listinfo/laszlo-user _______________________________________________ Laszlo-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.openlaszlo.org/mailman/listinfo/laszlo-user
