[Zope-dev] Strange Characters and Zope

Robin Becker robin@jessikat.demon.co.uk
Sun, 1 Aug 1999 00:54:43 +0100


In article <37A361B2.45A9E28C@ibm.net>, Itamar S.-T. <itamars@ibm.net>
writes
>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.
>
the upshot of this is don't use word to save as html as it won't be
transferable to netscape via zope.
-- 
Robin Becker