OK, I can replicate this in our PocketChange app (also going against a
PostgreSQL DB). Let me dig a bit.
Derek
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 3:58 AM, Charles F. Munat <c...@munat.com> wrote:
>
> This might help, but I don't think I was clear. I have an online form.
> My clients enter text into it. Their text has characters like a c with a
> cedilla. That text gets saved into a PostgreSQL database (UTF-8) varchar
> field via JPA/Hibernate.
>
> Then I pull it back out and dump it into a template, and it comes out
> gibberish. If I try using ç instead, I get &cedil; back out.
>
> Here is what I have:
>
> "name" -> SHtml.text(thing.name, thing.name = _, ("size", "40"))
>
> If I enter "cachaça" in the field, I get cachaça back out. The weird
> thing is that sometimes when I copy and paste text from another document
> into the form, it works. But if I use the keyboard, it fails every time.
>
> I'll play around with this. Thanks.
>
> Chas.
>
> Derek Chen-Becker wrote:
> > Oops, forgot scala.xml.Unparsed, too:
> >
> > scala> val m = <span>a{ scala.xml.Unparsed("ç") }b</span>
> > m: scala.xml.Elem = <span>açb</span>
> >
> > That one might be what you're looking for.
> >
> > Derek
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 9:57 PM, Derek Chen-Becker
> > <dchenbec...@gmail.com <mailto:dchenbec...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> > I think it depends on how you're embedding them in the XML:
> >
> > scala> val m = <span>açb</span>
> > m: scala.xml.Elem = <span>açb</span>
> >
> > scala> val m = <span>a{"ç"}b</span>
> > m: scala.xml.Elem = <span>a&ccedil;b</span>
> >
> > scala> val m = <span>a{"ç"}b</span>
> > m: scala.xml.Elem = <span>açb</span>
> >
> > That last one was input using dead keys (alt+,) on my linux (USA
> > International with dead keys) layout. Let me know if this doesn't
> > help; if not, could you send the code/template that's having issues?
> >
> > Derek
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Charles F. Munat <c...@munat.com
> > <mailto:c...@munat.com>> 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.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > >
>
> >
>
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