Ron, Use of double quotes is not an error, but is in fact recommended by the Legacy Help file (see "quoted given names" in the index). So your suggestion of replacing double quotes by single ones when creating web pages sounds like a good one.
Rob On 5/30/05, Ron Klotz Zellhoefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello LUG, > > In my Legacy database I have several people for whom I have posted their > nickname (when known to be commonly used, as opposed to an AKA) in double > quotes. > > Thanks to Ron Ferguson, who noticed a resulting problem when outputting > webpages which include a Legacy-produced Description meta-tag. It appears > that Legacy produces a description metatag when requested, which includes > the given names and other stuff - a neat trick! However, if a given name > includes a double-quote, this truncates the description at the first > double-quote, which may extend to further corrupt following html (??). > > So I learned something, and used search/replace to replace all such > double-quotes with single-quotes, whereupon the problem of course went away > on the next webpage output. ... a simple quick fix for those who've done as > I did. > > Perhaps Legacy programmers could include such replacement during webpage > output? It's not a "fatal" problem, but I do imagine that quite a few of us > Legacy users may be unwittingly making the same mistake as I had been doing > for years. > > RonKZ > > Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > > To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ > > To unsubscribe please visit: > http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp > Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
