Re: problem serving foreign languages text
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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 internationalsources page) and they fall under iso8859-1 characters as does grave accente 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===============================================
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>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 internationalsources page) and they fall under iso8859-1 characters as does grave accente 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===============================================
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