I'm not. Lift is. I'm just saving text into a database, and then pulling it back out again and displaying it. I'm not doing anything special. Everything, as far as I can tell is UTF-8, but still I get gibberish back out.
Marc Boschma wrote: > Which parser are you using? > > Quick tests with PCDataXmlParser seems to indicate all ç get > mapped to the unicode character. In fact it does that for all entities > in object HtmlEntities (line 26 onwards in lift-util/src/main/scala/ > net/liftweb/util/PCDataMarkupParser.scala) > > If I enter the ç into a form it gets stored as the unicode character > \u00E7 ... and also returns as that unicode character. > > Regards, > > Marc > > On 15/03/2009, at 11:36 AM, Charles F. Munat wrote: > >> I have a site that uses a lot of "special" characters (a remarkably >> biased description, since there is nothing "special" about accented >> characters to the people who use them daily). In particular, I need >> the >> c with cedilla and the n with the tilde. >> >> These characters are being input to a database (UTF-8) via an online >> form, then spit back out onto the page. >> >> It's a fucking disaster. Apparently, everything goes through the xml >> parser, which is great, except when I try to enter these as entity >> references, such as ç, the parser changes & to & and I get >> the literal ç back out again. >> >> When I type ç using the keyboard (or copy and paste it from a page >> or a >> text editor), I get gibberish. >> >> Anyone know the trick to getting around this? I need everything from e >> acute to e grave to trademark and registered trademark symbols, and I >> need to enter them this way. >> >> Thanks for any help. If I can get this to work, I'll add an >> explanation >> to the wiki. >> >> Chas. >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to liftweb@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
