[Zope] Extended characterset

[Tino Wildenhain]

Hi Ivan,

you may want to try out the modifier url_quote eg:

<dtml-var arbitrary_greek_text url_quote>

HTH
Tino Wildenhain

Ivan Mackintosh wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> What I want to do is to allow users to be able to enter greek/mathematical
> symbols into a textbox. I have managed to do this but get the following
> problem -
> 
> In the first dtml method the user clicks on a symbol button and that symbol
> is entered into the textbox. They then click on a submit button and the next
> dtml method is displayed.
> 
> This method simply does a <dtml-var REQUEST> so that I can see the value
> of the previous textbox. The symbol has changed!
> 
> On the first method I enter a lower case delta symbol and in the second I can
> see an 'a' with dots above it.
> 
> If I change my code so that instead of inserting a symbol into the textbox it
> inserts the code &delta; then when I get to the second dtml method the correct
> symbol is displayed. This is not very user friendly though.
> 
> Is there somekind of encoding variable set in Zope? as if I do the same code
> in straight html then it works fine.
> 
> Regards,
> Ivan
> 
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