DTML method entry translates hyphens to HTML entity
Hi, newbie question/problem here - apologies if this is answered elsewhere but I'm just finding my way round the newsgroups. I enter a simple DTML method (using the standard Zope interface), such as: <dtml-var standard_html_header> When I hit "save changes" the object is saved but the hyphen in 'dtml-var' has been changed to what looks like an HTML entity: '−' (without quotes). This doesn't do what it should (i.e. include the standard header) since, I guess, the parser doesn't recognise 'dtml−var' correctly when the method is called. If I then manually replace the entity with a hyphen and hit "save changes" again all is well. Strangely, if I then paste in another chunk of DTML the same thing happens: hyphens are converted, I change them manually and all is again well. Strangely, it doesn't seem to happen with other tags, such as '<random-tag>'. Can anyone explain what's going on? Is there an option to turn this off? Is this behaviour known about? Documented? etc? I'm using Windows 2K with Zope 2.5. Thanks in advance for any help. Cheers, Robin
Are you copying-and-pasting the code from somewhere? I had this problem with some of the demo code in the Zope Book PDF. I found that if I used the HTML version it worked fine. -- Tom Nixon e : tom.nixon@aim23.com Aim23 Limited t : +44 (0) 8702 002300
-----Original Message----- From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org] On Behalf Of Robin Macharg Sent: 04 April 2002 13:41 To: Zope Mailing List Subject: [Zope] DTML method entry translates hyphens to HTML entity
Hi, newbie question/problem here - apologies if this is answered elsewhere but I'm just finding my way round the newsgroups.
I enter a simple DTML method (using the standard Zope interface), such as:
<dtml-var standard_html_header>
When I hit "save changes" the object is saved but the hyphen in 'dtml-var' has been changed to what looks like an HTML entity: '−' (without quotes). This doesn't do what it should (i.e. include the standard header) since, I guess, the parser doesn't recognise 'dtml−var' correctly when the method is called.
If I then manually replace the entity with a hyphen and hit "save changes" again all is well. Strangely, if I then paste in another chunk of DTML the same thing happens: hyphens are converted, I change them manually and all is again well.
Strangely, it doesn't seem to happen with other tags, such as '<random-tag>'.
Can anyone explain what's going on? Is there an option to turn this off? Is this behaviour known about? Documented? etc?
I'm using Windows 2K with Zope 2.5. Thanks in advance for any help.
Cheers, Robin
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Completely correct, thanks. I'm doing exactly that. I guess Acrobat's encoding is doing funky things behind the (windows clipboard) scenes. R ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Nixon" <tom.nixon@aim23.com> To: "'Robin Macharg'" <robin@appliancestudio.com> Cc: <zope@zope.org> Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 1:51 PM Subject: RE: [Zope] DTML method entry translates hyphens to HTML entity
Are you copying-and-pasting the code from somewhere? I had this problem with some of the demo code in the Zope Book PDF. I found that if I used the HTML version it worked fine.
-- Tom Nixon e : tom.nixon@aim23.com Aim23 Limited t : +44 (0) 8702 002300
-----Original Message----- From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org] On Behalf Of Robin Macharg Sent: 04 April 2002 13:41 To: Zope Mailing List Subject: [Zope] DTML method entry translates hyphens to HTML entity
Hi, newbie question/problem here - apologies if this is answered elsewhere but I'm just finding my way round the newsgroups.
I enter a simple DTML method (using the standard Zope interface), such as:
<dtml-var standard_html_header>
When I hit "save changes" the object is saved but the hyphen in 'dtml-var' has been changed to what looks like an HTML entity: '−' (without quotes). This doesn't do what it should (i.e. include the standard header) since, I guess, the parser doesn't recognise 'dtml−var' correctly when the method is called.
If I then manually replace the entity with a hyphen and hit "save changes" again all is well. Strangely, if I then paste in another chunk of DTML the same thing happens: hyphens are converted, I change them manually and all is again well.
Strangely, it doesn't seem to happen with other tags, such as '<random-tag>'.
Can anyone explain what's going on? Is there an option to turn this off? Is this behaviour known about? Documented? etc?
I'm using Windows 2K with Zope 2.5. Thanks in advance for any help.
Cheers, Robin
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From: "Robin Macharg" <robin@appliancestudio.com>
Completely correct, thanks. I'm doing exactly that. I guess Acrobat's encoding is doing funky things behind the (windows clipboard) scenes.
It's not that funky, it's just that there are tons of different hyphens, and the ones you paste in may look exactly like the normal hyphens, but they have another ascii-code. :-)
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