Problem with french character

Poster: chill
Dated: Tuesday February 24 2004 - 16:53:38 GMT

EDIT - problem is with é character in example below ... I am actually entering it as & eacute; (put in space because your forum automatically changed it to é).

aI("text=Politique d'intimité;url=../site/index.cfm?fuseaction=Privacy;");

The result of this line includes the URL ... it is messed up because of the french character.

In other examples I have successfully used é ... the problem seems to be that this character falls DIRECTLY BEFORE the semi-colon separating the text from the url.

Any suggestions?

Regards,

Cheryl

Re: Problem with french character

Poster: kevin3442
Dated: Tuesday February 24 2004 - 17:07:03 GMT

Hi Cheryl,


Can you please reply and either (1) check the "Disable HTML in the post" option (below the text edit area) or (2) place your code inside of "code" tags (manually or by using the code button above the text area). Either option will ignore the html character code that you're using and render it as plain text in your posted message. I'd like to see your aI() definition exactly as it appears in your menu_data.

Also, what browser/os are you seeing the problem in?

Kevin

Poster: John
Dated: Tuesday February 24 2004 - 17:07:08 GMT

Try this...

Note the double ;; after the special.

Check "Disable HTML in this post" to get things looking the way you want.

thanks

Poster: chill
Dated: Tuesday February 24 2004 - 17:31:05 GMT

I had already tried that and it didn't work.

However, I made a new copy of the file, and voila...no problem. Hmmm....

thanks for your response.

Cheryl

Poster: John
Dated: Tuesday February 24 2004 - 17:35:31 GMT

Some invisible snuck in there on you!

Works the same way for any special -  ;, etc. (only at the end of a parameter, of course; e.g.    ;url=...).

Poster: Martin
Dated: Wednesday February 25 2004 - 0:48:10 GMT

hi,

The apostrophe character is also a problem I guess. I you should escape the sign with a leading Backslash: d\'intimité.
The menu system can use the apostrophe as a delimiter.

Actually Umlauts are not a problem. I use umlauts like üöäèà all the times, but without converting it to an html special character.

Poster: John
Dated: Wednesday February 25 2004 - 18:21:40 GMT

If you can enter umlauts with no problem, then I'd have to believe the menu can understand high-ASCII characters. If that's the case, then an é should work by itself with the use of an &.