character-reference

‘ “ é == ‘ “ é, but on what encoding/reference?

I have a ColdFusion script that does: <cfset content = replace(content,"&##147;","""","all")> Which replaces &147; by ". Google understands this too, if you type &#145; &#147; &#233; at its search box its transformed on the results page to ‘ “ é". If I search for é on this HTML Entity Character Lookup page, it'll return &#233; to me....

Character Format in php

Sorry I can’t log in claim ID is having server issues (im normally Arthur Gibbs) Data from my database currently outputs this when there are strange charecters... This is just a example What I get: De&#8730;ilscrat™ What I want: De√ilscrat™ It seems that some characters are being translated into character code by the other guys syste...

Javascript String argument with character reference

I have a javascript method call with a string parameter. In the string text sometimes contains html character references, e.g. &#39; I am getting an unexpected identifier error. If I have the character reference as &quot; then it works fine. Not sure why that is. Below is a code snippet of what I am trying to do. Actual method is much lo...

HTML character reference display problems.

Hey folks, I'm currently developing a site in Joomla, and one of the components I'm using makes use of a PHP file to administer the language. (english.php, spanish.php) The problem I'm having is that if I use the plain text version of eg. "á", it will show up in the browser tab title ok, but as a � in the body of the page. But if I use...

How to generate real UTF-8 XML with grails without the escape characters?

I have been wondering why when I set the encoding to UTF-8 and rendering the XML it replace the extended characters by escape characters (or character reference) like &#x2019; instead of '? I'm using the Render method render(contentType:"text/xml", encoding:"UTF-8") {...} with a proper header render(contentType:"text/xml", encoding:...

NSString's character reference.

I want to convert the NSString that have character reference (&amp; &apos; etc..). ex. before: &quot;I&apos;m happy.&quot; after: "I'm happy." ...

How can I convert HTML character references (&#x5E3;) to regular UTF-8?

Hello. I have some hebrew websites that contains character references like: &#x5E0;&#x5D5;&#x5E3; I can only view these letters if I save the file as .html and view in UTF-8 encoding. If I try to open it as a regular text file then UTF-8 encoding does not show the proper output. I noticed that if I open a text editor and write hebrew...

How to get the length of a string containing character references while counting the character references as one single character?

How can I get the length of string that also contains character references? I want to count only the number of characters which will be displayed in the browser. Like $raw = "Stack&#00f9" = Length = 6 $raw = "Stack12345" = Length = 10 $raw = "Stack&#00f9&#00f9" = Length = 7 Thanks in advance ...