Re: problem serving foreign languages text

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1997


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 12016
interpreted = N
texte = >Hi, > >I am new to this list and hope this topic was not already coverred by the list. > >I have a small dictionnary of technical terms in a File Maker pro Database >which contains basically the word and in another field its definition. As >I am french the text contains accented characters like é, ā for >>example. >When I tried to port the database to Webcatalog I obtain a * instead of >the real character and I could not find a way to tell Webcat to display >thoses characters.umlats work as in Tökaluedustus Oy Tool Agency (from my international sources page) and they fall under iso8859-1 characters as does grave accent e from above.All my data was put in via webcatalog using the url tag [url][form.firm][/url]But take a look at the [convertchars] tag. Wrap your output with them. The online docs heading says for [convertchars] Changes 'illegal' characters into legal HTML. And a grave accent e is an illegal character in html. I think this will solve what you are asking below also. >I tried to create a new definition in my dictionnary using Webcat with >some of my problematic characters and everything worked fine. Webcat can >display thoses characters if the record is written from Webcat. >How can I import 8bit characters text imported from the outside that >will display correctly in Webcat ? > >Regards, > >Laurent=============================================== Gary Richter PanaVise Products, Inc. 7540 Colbert Dr. Reno, Nevada 89511 Ph: 702.850.2900 Fx: 702.850.2929 Email: grichter@panavise.com http://www.panavise.com =============================================== Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: problem serving foreign languages text (Kenneth Grome 1997)
  2. problem serving foreign languages text (ltpladys 1997)
  3. Re: problem serving foreign languages text (grichter@panavise.com (Gary Richter) 1997)
>Hi, > >I am new to this list and hope this topic was not already coverred by the list. > >I have a small dictionnary of technical terms in a File Maker pro Database >which contains basically the word and in another field its definition. As >I am french the text contains accented characters like é, ā for >>example. >When I tried to port the database to Webcatalog I obtain a * instead of >the real character and I could not find a way to tell Webcat to display >thoses characters.umlats work as in Tökaluedustus Oy Tool Agency (from my international sources page) and they fall under iso8859-1 characters as does grave accent e from above.All my data was put in via webcatalog using the url tag [url][form.firm][/url]But take a look at the [convertchars] tag. Wrap your output with them. The online docs heading says for [convertchars] Changes 'illegal' characters into legal HTML. And a grave accent e is an illegal character in html. I think this will solve what you are asking below also. >I tried to create a new definition in my dictionnary using Webcat with >some of my problematic characters and everything worked fine. Webcat can >display thoses characters if the record is written from Webcat. >How can I import 8bit characters text imported from the outside that >will display correctly in Webcat ? > >Regards, > >Laurent=============================================== Gary Richter PanaVise Products, Inc. 7540 Colbert Dr. Reno, Nevada 89511 Ph: 702.850.2900 Fx: 702.850.2929 Email: grichter@panavise.com http://www.panavise.com =============================================== grichter@panavise.com (Gary Richter)

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