Re: Special Characters in CGI textarea

2005-04-28 Thread Shu Cao
: : Is there a standard way to deal with special characters like (r), :(c) etc in a CGI form and store the data in an Oracle database? : If the characters are special to Oracle DBMS, I think Oracle DBMS may provide some functions to deal with it. HTH -- Shu Cao <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Special Characters in CGI textarea

2005-04-28 Thread Ing. Branislav Gerzo
TAO, NENGBING [AG/1000] [TN], on Wednesday, April 27, 2005 at 16:58 (-0500) wrote: TN> Is there a standard way to deal with special TN> characters like (r), (c) etc in a CGI form and store the data in TN> an Oracle database? what about HTML escaping ? You store them in db normally, show t

Special Characters in CGI textarea

2005-04-28 Thread TAO, NENGBING [AG/1000]
Hi, Is there a standard way to deal with special characters like (r), (c) etc in a CGI form and store the data in an Oracle database? Thanks! Nengbing -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <h

Special Characters

2005-04-25 Thread TAO, NENGBING [AG/1000]
Hi, Is there a standard way to deal with special characters like (r), (c) etc in a CGI form and store the data in an Oracle database? Thanks! Nengbing -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <h

Dealing with 'special characters'

2004-03-29 Thread Howard Fuchs
Hi all: Here is my problem. I have a script which processes input from a textarea which may have 'special characters' in it like ‘ or ’ etc. Unfortunately what I am getting back are these ‘ or ’ respectively. Script snippet start-- use CGI qw/:standard/; prin

CGI and special characters

2004-03-26 Thread Howard Fuchs
Hi all: Here is my problem. I have a script which processes input from a textarea which may have 'special characters' in it like ‘ or ’ etc. Unfortunately what I am getting back are these ‘ or ’ respectively. Script snippet start-- use CGI qw/:standard/; prin

Re: Special characters

2003-12-29 Thread Octavian Rasnita
numeric form. Well, this replacement is not made at all for those strange chars, but only for < > & " and maybe a few others. Teddy - Original Message - From: "J. Alejandro Ceballos Z." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Special characters

2003-12-28 Thread Octavian Rasnita
Oh thank you. I just wanted to make that regexp and it saved me the time. Teddy From: "J. Alejandro Ceballos Z." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Special characters > yes, I agree, in fact we should take care about observing the 3 digits > (@ instead of @) >

Re: Special characters

2003-12-28 Thread J. Alejandro Ceballos Z.
yes, I agree, in fact we should take care about observing the 3 digits (@ instead of @) maybe something like $cString =~ s/([\x7f-\xff])/'&#'.ord($1).';'/ge; will fix the matter. >In my experience, the numeric escapes where available seem to be more universal between browsers. -- saludos,

Re: special characters

2003-12-27 Thread Octavian Rasnita
keyboard keys are mapped to other chars if I choose another language, but I see that it is not true. - Original Message - From: "Camilo Gonzalez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2003 5:46 PM Subject:

Re: special characters

2003-12-27 Thread Camilo Gonzalez
special characters for foreign languages (romanian), like staîâSTAÎÂ. Please tell me what can I do to make them show right in the visitors' browser. I've seen that if I just print them, they appear like a question mark instead (?). I've seen that other sites can print them right and I

Re: special characters

2003-12-24 Thread Octavian Rasnita
TECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2003 6:59 PM Subject: Re: special characters > I may try with nueric equivalents (like .) or htmlspecialchars() or > htmlentities() > > > Octavian Rasnita wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I want to create some web pages tha

Re: special characters

2003-12-24 Thread J. Alejandro Ceballos Z.
I may try with nueric equivalents (like .) or htmlspecialchars() or htmlentities() Octavian Rasnita wrote: Hi all, I want to create some web pages that use special characters for foreign languages (romanian), like staîâSTAÎÂ. Please tell me what can I do to make them show right in the visitors

Re: special characters

2003-12-23 Thread Owen
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 22:46:51 +0200 "Octavian Rasnita" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to create some web pages that use special characters for foreign > languages (romanian), like staîâSTAÎÂ. > > Please tell me what can I do to make them show right in the visi

special characters

2003-12-23 Thread Octavian Rasnita
Hi all, I want to create some web pages that use special characters for foreign languages (romanian), like staîâSTAÎÂ. Please tell me what can I do to make them show right in the visitors' browser. I've seen that if I just print them, they appear like a question mark instead (?). I&#x

RE: A question about strings and hexadecimal numbers of special characters

2002-03-06 Thread Tim Fletcher
>>Sometimes a question mark apears in the middle of a string like that: >>$string = "/cgi-bin/search.pl?term=who?&lang=english"; >>where "who?" is a unit and the question mark is part of it. Although I try >>to escape the question mark in "who?" and I get its hexadecimal number, I >>don't get th

RE: RE: A question about strings and hexadecimal numbers of special characters

2002-03-06 Thread O. P.
Thanks Tim. Your answer solves many problems to me. But I have a further question. Sometimes a question mark apears in the middle of a string like that: $string = "/cgi-bin/search.pl?term=who?&lang=english"; where "who?" is a unit and the question mark is part of it. Although I try to escape

A question about strings and hexadecimal numbers of special characters

2002-03-06 Thread O. P.
Hi. I'm very new to Perl and have a basic question. How can I convert special characters contained in a string to hexadesimal numbers. I'm trying to access a cgi program but the string I use with the post method contains quote marks, question marks, etc. and the program crashe

Re: Escaping special characters for regular expressions

2002-02-28 Thread Rob Roudebush
Wouldn't single quotes do the trick? Curtis Poe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- W P wrote: > i don't want to just escape those characters. they were merely examples. i > was hoping maybe there was some built-in way to escape ALL the characters > that mean anything to regular expressions. Well,

Re: Escaping special characters for regular expressions

2002-02-28 Thread Curtis Poe
--- W P <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i don't want to just escape those characters. they were merely examples. i > was hoping maybe there was some built-in way to escape ALL the characters > that mean anything to regular expressions. Well, technically, *all* characters mean something to a regex

Re: Escaping special characters for regular expressions

2002-02-28 Thread W P
i don't want to just escape those characters. they were merely examples. i was hoping maybe there was some built-in way to escape ALL the characters that mean anything to regular expressions. it just seemed like a lot of work to put a \ before all the characters that regular expressions recogni

Re: Escaping special characters for regular expressions

2002-02-28 Thread eric-perl
if they actually type out the contents as the > first string. However, I would like for things like . and \w to > search for those string literals, rather than for any character or any > word character, respectively. Is there some function or capability > which escapes all special c

Escaping special characters for regular expressions

2002-02-27 Thread W P
rst string. However, I would like for things like . and \w to search for those string literals, rather than for any character or any word character, respectively. Is there some function or capability which escapes all special characters in a string before it is passed to a regular expression?