On Wed, 27 Jun 2001 Ben Rubinstein [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Is it possible to get a list of the character entities supported by htmlText
(or a link to the reference used)?
I think the table came from the HTML 3.2 spec.
Also, I have the impression that when non-ascii characters are found in the
text which do not have a corresponding character entity name, they are
mapped in some way to a particular character set, and then expressed as
codes, eg #148;. Is this in ISO-8859-1? Eg if on the Mac you set the
text of a field to numtochar(165), which is bullet, you'll find that the
htmlText of the field is #149;. Can Scott (or someone) confirm that
this is what is happening, and what happens when there is no mapping for the
character in the 'local' character set to the destination one (ISO-8859-1,
if it is that)?
Yes, which is the same way HTML works. And there is always a mapping
to some other character value, though not always the same character
glyph (or even to a printable character). It uses the same tables as
the ISOToMac() and MacToISO() functions. The same information is
presented graphically in the character chooser.
Regards,
Scott
TIA,
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