Re: forms and variables
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 1998
It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 18953
interpreted = N
texte = > >>>>3) Emailing variables (i.e. with SENDMAIL) >>> >>>If there's a problem with this, I've never seen it ... :) >> >>...you don't speak or write swedish either, then you would have seen >>problems ;-) > > >Maybe not very elegant, but helps: I never send emails as they are. We have >some special characters in german too, so I always send the text through a >conversion table and change the characters in question to ascii-equivalents. >Wether special characters are readable in a mail depends also on the >client's configuration, which I cannot control... >And I have no way of knowing what bizarre characters some user on some platform in some country is going to intentionally or accidentally type into a Web form (especially when they paste contents into a field via the clipboard). Thus, I cannot create an all-encompassing customconversions.db.Maybe there should be a new function that strips a field of all characters except for the ones contained in a permittedcharacters.db. I am concerned about bizarre characters (or gremlins) screwing up the passing of variables and the sending / receiving of mail. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Rosenbaum Pop Art L.L.C. http://pop-art.com steve@pop-art.com Networks / Databases / Multimedia7000 SW Hampton St., Suite 124, tel: (503) 968.5957 Tigard, OR 97223-8361 fax: (503) 620.8487
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> >>>>3) Emailing variables (i.e. with SENDMAIL) >>> >>>If there's a problem with this, I've never seen it ... :) >> >>...you don't speak or write swedish either, then you would have seen >>problems ;-) > > >Maybe not very elegant, but helps: I never send emails as they are. We have >some special characters in german too, so I always send the text through a >conversion table and change the characters in question to ascii-equivalents. >Wether special characters are readable in a mail depends also on the >client's configuration, which I cannot control... >And I have no way of knowing what bizarre characters some user on some platform in some country is going to intentionally or accidentally type into a Web form (especially when they paste contents into a field via the clipboard). Thus, I cannot create an all-encompassing customconversions.db.Maybe there should be a new function that strips a field of all characters except for the ones contained in a permittedcharacters.db. I am concerned about bizarre characters (or gremlins) screwing up the passing of variables and the sending / receiving of mail. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Rosenbaum Pop Art L.L.C. http://pop-art.com steve@pop-art.com Networks / Databases / Multimedia7000 SW Hampton St., Suite 124, tel: (503) 968.5957 Tigard, OR 97223-8361 fax: (503) 620.8487
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