I remember there was a script we used at some point called "domoronizer" (sp?) from that Autodesk hacker, which could
convert Microsoft charset files to unicode, or at least to acceptable HTML.



On 10/23/06, P T Withington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Well &#146; is an XML entity for a character that is not a unicode
character (which is why it is displaying as a box), so your source
XML is broken.  The correct XML entity for right single quotation
mark is &#x2019; or &#8217;.  Additionally, if your data is in utf-8,
then you don't need to write unicode characters as xml entities, they
can be represented directly in the file.

(Hint: 146 is the cp1252 (aka Windows) code for right single quote.
Either your data source is not really utf-8, or it has been
incorrectly converted.)

On 2006-10-23, at 15:37 EDT, James Howe wrote:

> My Laszlo application displays data extracted from XML retrieved via
> HTTP.  The XML is encoded using UTF-8.  Sometimes some of the XML will
> contain entities with the value &#146;, which happens to be a "close
> single quote" character, used where an apostrophe would be used, e.g.
> "it&#146;s a shame" for "it's a shame".  Whenever my Laszlo app
> gets XML
> with this character (and other similar entities like &#147;), my app
> simply displays a empty box for the character.  When I first saw
> this I
> thought I was having some character mapping problem in my XML, but now
> I'm thinking it's due to the font I'm using.  I'm using Windows XP to
> access my app (as will most of my users).  Is there a reasonable
> workaround to this problem that will let these characters display
> on all
> platforms that my users might be using?
>
> Thanks!
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