I read data from a mysql database that has is filled by php scripts. All special characters are converted to named or numbered html entities (for example & a m p ; & # 2 8 6 ;). I know of no way to convert these characters back to the original ones in Delphi as unicode strings. Did anyone ever find or even create such a function? This would be very helpful to me. Thanks! Marc
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In Delphi 2007 there is a unit called HTTPApp.pas (in [Delphi Folder]\Source\Win32\Internet) that has the functions HTMLEncode and HTMLDecode. They might be worth a look.
Pauk
2009-07-08 10:22:29
Right, this really looks interesting.I will test this unit later on, but as far as i can see this seems to solve the question.Thanks!
2009-07-08 12:15:30
It's in D2006 as well
Gerry
2009-07-09 03:02:49
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Anyone still out there using Delphi? :)
We are having problems with unicode characters too. It seems that HTTPApp.DecodeHTML only supports Ansi (aargh).
When we post this text
hyphen ( -, ‐ )
in a textarea to the Delphi web server app and then, in the debugger, inspect Request.ContentFields, it looks like this:
hyphen ( -, & # 8 2 0 8 ; )
Note the HTML encoded value: & # 8 2 0 8 ;
(ignore the spaces; this site has some encoding problems itself too :-)
For some reason (probably that it does not fit in AnsiString?) it is not decoded?
Does anyone have any experience with this? How do we solve it?
It really is a problem, because ContentFields is so low level, we use it everywhere in our app.