If you don't want to use a lookup table then pulling out these entities using repeat while matchchunk and in the loop setting the htmltext of a second field and doing chartonum on the text of the field would work.
Cheers Monte Sent from my iPad On 30/10/2010, at 1:53 AM, Chris Sheffield <cmsheffi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Got a small problem and wondering if there's any way around it. > > When getting the htmlText of a field, is there any way to make Rev/LiveCode > return the numeric html entities of special characters? So for example, if I > have a word in Spanish, like "día" (accented i), if I put that into a text > field and get the htmlText property of that field, is there any way to return > the string "día" instead of "día"? When setting the htmlText > property, either one works, but Rev always returns the latter. > > Thoughts? > > Thanks, > Chris > > -- > Chris Sheffield > Read Naturally, Inc. > www.readnaturally.com > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > use-revolution@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
