I have the same issue just different.
I use YUITextEditor for my text editing. The copy and paste for Word is a HUGE
problem. The latest YUI 2.8.1 code has a switch that will deal with weird
formatting and characters issue a little bit better. But still not great.
Part of my research found a javascript thing that will try to clean the text
box, but I could not get that to work correctly.
Paul
On Oct 18, 2010, at 9:21 AM, Theodore Petrosky wrote:
> Is the Word issue the same as mine. When I view the logs I see 0x00 as the
> offending character. If you look at the accessor (setJobDescription) from
> below, you will see the NSLog that prints the int value of the characters.
> this is where I discovered the 'zero' at the end of the string.
>
> As I said I can not believe I was the only one that could have had this
> problem so what do others do with it? Is there a way to handle this globally?
>
> Obviously, there is no way to type a string with the trailing zero, so it
> only comes when pasting in text.
>
> If I use the accessor method to fix this, that implies that I must fix any
> text area on any page that I generate. (this is of course only an issue with
> the WOText not WOTextField)
>
> Maybe I should override the accessor in my model?
>
> Ted
>
> --- On Mon, 10/18/10, David Avendasora <webobje...@avendasora.com> wrote:
>
>> From: David Avendasora <webobje...@avendasora.com>
>> Subject: Re: re-post text encoding in a WOText area?
>> To: "Theodore Petrosky" <tedp...@yahoo.com>
>> Date: Monday, October 18, 2010, 7:30 AM
>> Hi Ted,
>>
>> I am about to deal with similar issue. I know we have seen
>> problems with pasting text out of a Word document before
>> also. I'm not sure what to tell you to try. What PDF reader
>> are you using? Do you see the same issue with other PDF
>> readers?
>>
>> Dave
>>
>> On Oct 18, 2010, at 4:41 AM, Theodore Petrosky wrote:
>>
>>> Last week I asked whether anyone had seen a problem
>> with inserting text that was copied from a PDF and pasted
>> into a WOText area.
>>>
>>> My client was creating a new object (a job). She
>> copied some meta data (text) from a PDF and pasted it into a
>> WOText:
>>>
>>> <wo:WOText value = "$jobDescription" cols = "40"
>> rows = "8" />
>>>
>>> she then clicked the save button that fired the
>> saveChanges() on the EC.
>>>
>>> The new object threw an exception and after looking at
>> the logs I discovered that the text that was pasted from the
>> PDF had a trailing byte with a value of '0'. I googled
>> around and came up with a solution to parse the text before
>> trying to insert it into the database.
>>>
>>> this is the setter for the WOText (now):
>>>
>>> public void setJobDescription(String aJobDescription)
>> {
>>> String theString = "";
>>>
>>> for(char
>> c:aJobDescription.toCharArray()){
>>>
>> if((c&(char)0xff00)==0 &&
>> (int)c != 0 ) {
>>>
>> theString=theString+c;
>>>
>> //NSLog.out.appendln("character
>> = " + (int)c);
>>> }
>>> }
>>>
>>> _jobDescription = theString;
>>> }
>>>
>>> First, has anyone seen this before (text coming from a
>> PDF with anomalies that will then require processing) and
>>> B, is there a better solution?
>>>
>>> I can not be the only person to have a problem with
>> this. I think it is unreasonable for me to tell my client,
>> "Just copy and paste the text into a text editor before
>> copying it again then paste it into the web page."
>>>
>>>
>>> :-)
>>>
>>> Ted
>>>
>>>
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