On Dec 31, 2008, at 6:39 AM, Jim Sims wrote:
I have a rev cgi that saves text from a form in a web page.
I am testing the input of a language that requires unicode into that
form
(the example I am using is the Greek word for small horse "μικρό
άλογο").
The cgi saves that text to a text file from which I can retrieve it.
It looks like this after I get the url that contains it from the
server:
%26%23956%3B%26%23953%3B%26%23954%3B%26%23961%3B%26%23972%3B+
%26%23940%3B%26%23955%3B%26%23959%3B%26%23947%3B%26%23959%3B
After I urldecode the above, it looks like this:
μικρό άλογο
How would I change the unicode shown above back into the original
Greek text?
[those appear to be the correct chars - if I do this locally and then
save those
Greek words with the htmlText, they are the same items (in addition to
the
html formating tags, of course)]
Sims,
If you get the text back as html entities like this you may have to
add in the font tags in your scripting. It would probably be
sufficient to note which tags are added when you do it locally and
prepend/append them. The one trick is that the space character is not
unicode, so you'd have to surround each word by font tags. Here's
what I came up with when I did a quick test (beware line wrapping):
put "μικρό άλογο"
into decodedText
repeat for each word tWord in decodedText
put "<font face=" "e& "Geneva" "e && "lang=" "e&
"en-UC" & quote & ">" before tWord
put "</font>" after tWord
put tWord & space after taggedText
end repeat
put taggedText--> yields: <font face="Geneva" lang="en-
UC">μικρό</font> <font face="Geneva" lang="en-
UC">άλογο</font>
set the htmltext of fld 1 to taggedText
(Ugly, I know, but it works.)
As an alternative, would it be possible to encode the unicode text
from the form as UTF-8 before saving it to the text file? At least it
would be a bit cleaner that way.
HTH
Regards,
Devin
Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University
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