[Zope-dev] Strange Characters and Zope

Itamar S.-T. itamars@ibm.net
Sat, 31 Jul 1999 23:50:58 +0300


Robin Becker wrote:
> 
> I was demonstrating the implementation in Zope of my Generational
> Accounting web model. The Academic saw how marvellous it was and wanted
> immediately to change some of the text in the pages. It was in word so I
> said 'save as html' and then we'll hack it into the database pages.
> Foolish me. Word inserts many strange characters into it's version of
> HTML. One of them being ? character 0x92. This causes the page to start
> flinging out save as dialogs.
> 
> Can someone enlighten me as to what characters may be safely
> embedded/used in Zope DTML. We figured 0x92 fairly easily. The next
> document had something else weird and I haven't yet found out what.

There's utility somewhere, IIRC, that fixes all those wierd chars from
Windows in HTML.  Try searching through Freshmeat.

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