I think I found something !
" ' " can be replaced by HTML entity ' (in decimal, 39), and the
strange character is  (in hexadecimal, 1B),... 27, the same, strange,
isn't it ?
Then somewhere in my code, the SQLFORM
form
is treated with
realform = TAG(form.xml())
in order to have the whole DOM tree in the server to do some research on it
and replacements.
This TAG function calls HTMLParser, and for this character call back
web2pyHTMLParser.handle_charref which treats the character as decimal 27...
The problem is then on module html.py, line 2192,
if name[1].lower()=='x':
should be
if name[0].lower()=='x':
as given name is "x27".
Little bug :-) What is the procedure to open an issue ?
And in the mean time I will be obliged to replace manually this strange
character back into " ' ", hopping the people that will write HTML code
using my application will not use unicode characters
>>>> On Friday, May 25, 2012 4:35:30 AM UTC-4, Cédric Mayer wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hello !
>>>>> I have a table with "text" fields:
>>>>> Field('f_comments', type='text',
>>>>> label=T('Comment')),
>>>>> or even:
>>>>> Field('f_form', type='text',
>>>>> label=T('Form'), comment=T('Please write HTML here')),
>>>>> Using appadmin interface, if I use an apostrophe " ' " inside the
>>>>> textarea fields and submit the record form, the apostrophe saved, and if
>>>>> I
>>>>> display the appadmin form for the same record again, they are displayed
>>>>> inside the textarea fields.
>>>>>
>>>>> But creating my own form:
>>>>> form = SQLFORM(db.t_question, record, deletable=True)
>>>>> apostrophes " ' " do not appear anymore.
>>>>>
>>>>> I did some copy-paste of what was inside my own textarea to an
>>>>> hexadecimal editor, and the apostrophe are replaced with the # 27 (hexa
>>>>> 1B)
>>>>> character in the case of my own form.
>>>>>
>>>>> If I save the form as-is, this 1B character is saved too, and so the
>>>>> apostrophe disappears also if I look to the record from the appadmin
>>>>> interface.
>>>>>
>>>>> It is really anoying as I use the content of the fields as pure HTML
>>>>> afterwards : not having apostrophes leads to errors if I try to have some
>>>>> Javascript in those fields.
>>>>>
>>>>> 1) What is the difference between the form generated in appadmin, and
>>>>> the one generated by SQLFORM ?
>>>>> 2) Is there a way not to escape " ' " in text fields ?
>>>>>
>>>>
