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Title: Special Character - Degree Symbol
Post by: RichBowman on March 12, 2012, 12:45:55 PM

The degree symbol can be entered by typing Alt+0176. This works fine in my Win32 apps but my NT app can not display the record with this symbol. How can I handle this? I do not need input capability, just display.

Thank you,

Rich

Title: Re: Special Character - Degree Symbol
Post by: AZIS350 on March 12, 2012, 01:58:54 PM

The HTML code for the degree symbol is °

Give that a try and see if it works for you.

Title: Re: Special Character - Degree Symbol
Post by: RichBowman on March 13, 2012, 01:54:51 AM

I don't think I explained my question well. The degree symbol is embedded in a field in the database. My Browse will not display a record that has that symbol in a field on the Browse. In fact, once the parent record is displayed, the parent Browse will not even do a Next. Is there a setting in NT that will allow this record to display?

Thank you,

Rich

Title: Re: Special Character - Degree Symbol
Post by: kevin plummer on March 13, 2012, 04:09:08 AM

Have you ticked allow xhtml for that column?

Title: Re: Special Character - Degree Symbol
Post by: Bruce on March 13, 2012, 06:50:31 AM

what settings have you set for "charset" and "save as" on the webserver procedure, advanced tab?

cheers
Bruce

Title: Re: Special Character - Degree Symbol
Post by: RichBowman on March 13, 2012, 10:02:49 AM

"Allow xhtml" is checked for that column. Both Charset and Save As in the WebServer procedure are utf-8. I should mention that I actually display a local variable. It is 2 string fields concatenated like this (so I get a 2 line row):

LineDescription = OED:LineDescription & '<br />' & OED:LineDescription2

This is on a parent / child browse form. When a parent is displayed with a child record that has the degree symbol, the child records do not display and clicking next or previous on the parent browse does not display a new set of records.

Thank you,

Rich

Title: Re: Special Character - Degree Symbol
Post by: linas@debetas.lt on March 13, 2012, 07:14:32 PM

xhtml is very strict. what i see is that the you result as xhtml is wrong and it is not displayed because of that.

Title: Re: Special Character - Degree Symbol
Post by: kevin plummer on March 13, 2012, 08:43:31 PM

Once you build your LineDescription try to scan for ascii value <176> and do a replace with &deg;

If you use Firebug you can see the XML errors

Title: Re: Special Character - Degree Symbol
Post by: Bruce on March 14, 2012, 12:20:44 AM

>> Both Charset and Save As in the WebServer procedure are utf-8.

you've told the server you have your data stored as utf-8, but in practice you haven't stored the data as utf-8. This is, I think, perhaps the root of your problem.
If you change to "save as Ascii" you will probably have better success.

cheers
Bruce

Title: Re: Special Character - Degree Symbol
Post by: RichBowman on March 14, 2012, 02:46:44 AM

Changing the "Save as" character set to ASCII worked.

Thank you,

Rich