Re: Witango-Talk: Encoding

[John McGowan]

FYI: Whether or not you set the encoding attribute, characters like the 
(R) will get encoded anyway as a last step before the content gets sent 
to the browser.   I discovered this while uncovering an encoding bug in 
the current Witango server. I didn't realize before that there were two 
steps to the encoding process.  Here is a snippet of an email from Phil 
that explains the 2 step encoding a little better and he specifically 
mentions what happens to the encoding

There are 2 encodings that happen.  First is in the ResultHTML windows.  The
second is as the result buffer leaves the server.  The "Registered symbol"
is in high ascii so is encoded as the result buffer is sent (see system
variable EncodeResults).
Steve,
Are you looking in the database directly to see what is being stored by 
witango, or are you looking at some output with encoding=none.  If 
you're looking at witango output with encoding=none, the character will 
still get converted to ® because of that second encoding that happens.

/John
Robert Shubert wrote:
I would think that storing the $reg; would be what you want, it's
similar to any other html such as <b>.  When displaying the contents of
the file, you want to use encoding=none so that the web browser will
turn it back into the (R). I'm not sure if this is an actual high-bit
character or just off the normal chart, but I believe that IE and your
database will always be better handling the &reg; than the actual
character. You could also try using @REPLACE to turn $reg; into <@CHAR
##> (whatever the ascii value is for a (R)) and then use
encoding=metahtml on the return.
-----Original Message-----
From: Fogelson, Steve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 4:10 PM
To: Witango User Group (E-mail)
Subject: Witango-Talk: Encoding

I am having trouble storing the "registered system" in my DB. It stores
as
&reg; instead of the symbol. I have tried inserting the row with the
following:
<@var user$ShoppingBasket[<@var request$CurrItem>,P_Name]> as well as
<@var user$ShoppingBasket[<@var request$CurrItem>,P_Name] encoding=none>
as
well as 
<@var user$ShoppingBasket[<@var request$CurrItem>,P_Name]
encoding=metahtml>

It still stores &reg;
Is this possible?
Thanks
Steve Fogelson
Internet Commerce Solutions
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