RE: High ASCII inside [LOOKUP] inside [LISTWORDS]
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 1998
It keeps the original formatting.
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texte = Hi Michael,Are you doing all of this in WebDNA? We have some insane parsing needs (mutliple character sets, HTML, etc.) and push it off to another application to handle. Webcat can work very well with an external script.Aloha, Olin> -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Winston [mailto:michaelw@dhorse.com] > Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 1998 1:09 PM > To: WebDNA-Talk@smithmicro.com > Subject: Re: High ASCII inside [LOOKUP] inside [LISTWORDS] > > > At 1:23 PM -0800 10/20/98, Gary Richter is rumored to have typed: > > > > >My first message just came through and, of course, the > registration symbol > > >was converted to an AE. So, visualize a circle-r where the AE's are. > > > > what you want is the AE symbol to be the html © or © or > copyright > > symbol, have you tried convertchars and or looked in the standard > > conversion database or tried to make a custom one to convert > this for you? > > Well, it's a bit more complicated than I let on. This is part of a larger > script designed to strip out . Once the tags are removed, the > result is written to a file which is then printed out and sent with the > order shipment. > > The only part of the HTML stripping script I can't do is changing entities > like © and & to (c) and &. If I replace things like (r) > (that's a > registered TM symbol) with ® or ® I screw up the > original point of > the script. > > To make things even *more* difficult for myself, the HTML stripping is > itself part of a larger script designed to emulate a word wrap on my > printouts. This script requires counting charcters in words until a limit > is hit. If I start expanding 1-character entities to 5-character strings, > the count is off and it doesn't wrap correctly. > > Michael > > Michael Winston *By e-mail!: michaelw@dhorse.com > Senior Web Developer *By web!: http://www.dhorse.com/ > Dark Horse Comics, Inc. *By fax!: 503/654/9440
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Hi Michael,Are you doing all of this in WebDNA? We have some insane parsing needs (mutliple character sets, HTML, etc.) and push it off to another application to handle. Webcat can work very well with an external script.Aloha, Olin> -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Winston [mailto:michaelw@dhorse.com] > Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 1998 1:09 PM > To: WebDNA-Talk@smithmicro.com > Subject: Re: High ASCII inside
[lookup] inside
[listwords] > > > At 1:23 PM -0800 10/20/98, Gary Richter is rumored to have typed: > > > > >My first message just came through and, of course, the > registration symbol > > >was converted to an AE. So, visualize a circle-r where the AE's are. > > > > what you want is the AE symbol to be the html © or © or > copyright > > symbol, have you tried convertchars and or looked in the standard > > conversion database or tried to make a custom one to convert > this for you? > > Well, it's a bit more complicated than I let on. This is part of a larger > script designed to strip out . Once the tags are removed, the > result is written to a file which is then printed out and sent with the > order shipment. > > The only part of the HTML stripping script I can't do is changing entities > like © and & to (c) and &. If I replace things like (r) > (that's a > registered TM symbol) with ® or ® I screw up the > original point of > the script. > > To make things even *more* difficult for myself, the HTML stripping is > itself part of a larger script designed to emulate a word wrap on my > printouts. This script requires counting charcters in words until a limit > is hit. If I start expanding 1-character entities to 5-character strings, > the count is off and it doesn't wrap correctly. > > Michael > > Michael Winston *By e-mail!: michaelw@dhorse.com > Senior Web Developer *By web!: http://www.dhorse.com/ > Dark Horse Comics, Inc. *By fax!: 503/654/9440
Olin
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