On Wed, 27 Jun 2001 Ben Rubinstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Is it possible to get a list of the character entities supported by htmlText
> (or a link to the reference used)?
I think the table came from the HTML 3.2 spec.
> Also, I have the impression that when non-ascii characters are found in the
> text which do not have a corresponding character entity name, they are
> mapped in some way to a particular character set, and then expressed as
> codes, eg "”". Is this in ISO-8859-1? Eg if on the Mac you set the
> text of a field to "numtochar(165)", which is bullet, you'll find that the
> "htmlText" of the field is "•". Can Scott (or someone) confirm that
> this is what is happening, and what happens when there is no mapping for the
> character in the 'local' character set to the destination one (ISO-8859-1,
> if it is that)?
Yes, which is the same way HTML works. And there is always a mapping
to some other character value, though not always the same character
glyph (or even to a printable character). It uses the same tables as
the ISOToMac() and MacToISO() functions. The same information is
presented graphically in the character chooser.
Regards,
Scott
> TIA,
>
> Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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