On 13 Dec 2013, at 2:29 AM, peter <peterchutchin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you Jonathon for taking the time to make two good suggestions. The
> first did not get the apostrophes to appear. WRT the second, one can only
> control the encoding of Word when outputting txt files.
>
> I have now created a work around, a bit ugly but the best I can achieve for
> the moment.
>
> smart apostrophes should be ’ for html. So I use textpad and replace all
> smart apostrophe's with ’. I have to do this twice, once for the left
> leaning apostrophe and once for the right leaning one.
>
> This is not a nice solution but it does work.
One more thing to try: the mht file should have one or more charset
declarations. What do they say?
It occurs to me that a couple of other things could be going wrong. One is that
my re-coding suggestion isn't working because even though it might change the
*character* encoding to UTF-8, the internal declarations are telling the
browser to treat it as something else.
Another problem is that the database itself might be doing some
encoding/decoding, depending on how the field is defined. You probably want to
make sure you're using a field that treats its contents as binary data, or else
store it as base64 text.
Yet another thing to try: rather than using your browser's view-source to see
what you're getting back, fetch the result with curl or wget and look at the
result in a text editor.
BTW, your html entities should be terminated with a semicolon. Depending on the
next character in the string, most browsers will try to do the right thing
without it, but don't count on it. And FWIW you can use ’ and ‘
instead.
One last thing. In Word for Mac 2011, when I save to .mht I get a dialog with a
Web Options button. That button give me a dialog with several tabs. One of the
tabs is Encoding, which lets me save as UTF-8 (and set the default to UTF-8).
Hopefully Word for Windows has something similar.
>
> Peter
>
> On Friday, 13 December 2013 02:20:31 UTC, Jonathan Lundell wrote:
> On 12 Dec 2013, at 6:12 PM, Jonathan Lundell <jlun...@pobox.com> wrote:
>> On 12 Dec 2013, at 4:16 PM, peter <peterchu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I have a word document that I output as a .'.mht; file ie, a 'single file
>>> web page'.
>>>
>>> I can put sections of this into a string field in a database and then
>>> display the field through a view, and the formatting in the word document
>>> is preserved.
>>>
>>> here is a line from the file that I read into web2py and insert into a
>>> field in a database.
>>>
>>> <p class=3DStyle7
>>> style=3D'line-height:11.5pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><span
>>> lang=3DEN-US style=3D'font-family:"Adobe
>>> Garamond","serif";mso-bidi-font-family: "Adobe Garamond"'>‘One Lettuce Does
>>> Not a Salad Make’ is similar to Jones’ story .......
>>>
>>>
>>> Everything works fine except the apostrophes in the text disappear.
>>>
>>> When I display the field on the screen, there are no apostrophes. I f I
>>> 'view source', it is as above, but without the apostrophe's before One,
>>> after Make and after Jones.
>>>
>>> Clearly this is an encoding problem. If I read the .mht file into textpad,
>>> the apostrophe's appear, and textpad says the file is 'ANSI'. The question
>>> is how do I read the file in such as way as to correctly encode the
>>> apostrophes?
>>>
>>> I have tried various encodings including 'locale.getpreferredencoding()'.
>>>
>>>
>>> Does anyone know how to solve this problem
>>>
>>
>> Your email headers suggest that the string (at least in the email) is
>> encoded as windows-1252.
>>
>> So if s is your encoded string, you might try
>> s.decode('cp1252').encode('utf8'). Assuming that UTF-8 is OK for output.
>>
>>
>
> Alternatively, you might try to persuade Word to emit UTF-8 directly. This
> might help:
> http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook-help/choose-text-encoding-when-you-open-and-save-files-HA010121249.aspx
>
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