Francois Piette wrote:
>> Or am I missing something?
>
> I think so. Using "html entities" make sure the correct character is
> represented whatever the character set or character code is used by
> the browser.
That's correct, but the server maps the wrong HTML entities if it doesn't run
in a locale that uses CP 1252!
For example:
Currently char #162 is hard coded to represent the cent sign:
HTML Entity: 'cent' , { #162 cent sign
}
In windows-1251 however #162 maps to the small kyrillic letter U (short).
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> From: "Arno Garrels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 9:47 AM
> Subject: [twsocket] HTML encoding in HttpSrv func. TextToHtmlText()
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>
>> In function TextToHtmlText() the HTML encoding of characters above
>> #127 assumes code page iso-8859-1.
>>
>> const
>> HtmlSpecialChars : array [160..255] of String[6] = (
>> 'nbsp' , { #160 no-break space = non-breaking
> }
>> 'iexcl' , { #161 inverted exclamation
> }
>> 'cent' , { #162 cent sign
>>
>> ..
>>
>> This IMO should be exchanged by simple decimal notation:
>> '&#' + IntToStr(Ord(Char)) in both Icsv6 and Icsv7.
>>
>> Decimal notation of characters <= #255 seems to work with all
>> browsers, tested even with Netscape 3.01.
>> With word-sized characters above #255 (D2009 and ICSv7) modern
>> browsers render the correct Unicode characters.
>>
>> Or am I missing something?
>>
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