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 &#146; 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 &#x2019; or &#8217;.  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 &#146;, which happens to be a  
>> "close
>> > single quote" character, used where an apostrophe would be used,  
>> e.g.
>> > "it&#146;s a shame" for "it's a shame".  Whenever my Laszlo app
>> > gets XML
>> > with this character (and other similar entities like &#147;), 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
>> >
>> >
>> >
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