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And try to link this thread. Richard On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 10:40 AM, Cédric Mayer <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 ? >>>>>> >>>>>
