Pound sign in DCR

Why will a pound sign not save properly into a DCR? All my pound signs are being saved with a circumflex A in front of them...

eg: Â£

Edited by Engram on 10/07/02 07:33 AM (server time).

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james1

When you edit the DCR, what does the data capture form GUI show you? Just the pound sign, I hope.

When you generate a file from that DCR using a presentation template, what does your generated page look like? Just the pound sign, I hope.

The DCR is saved in UTF-8 encoding. The UTF-8 encoding uses two bytes to represent the pound sign. Whatever program you are using to inspect the DCR file is probably interpreting the file in ASCII or ISO-8859-1 encoding.

Trust that your strings are saved as they are entered. Any XML parser, including the ones used by Templating, should read those two bytes as the pound character, since UTF-8 is the default encoding for XML.

Hope this helps.
-- James

Engram

Thanks for the reply James.

In the GUI I do only see a pound sign however in the content of the DCR (the raw XML) it is stored as as circumflex A followed by the £ symbol.

This would be fine if it removed the circumflex A when I generated a page, but it doesn't. It writes the A and the £ symbol onto the page!!

I have had to resort to using & p o u n d ; in my DCR's.

james1

> This would be fine if it removed the circumflex A when I
> generated a page, but it doesn't. It writes the A and the £
> symbol onto the page!!

This is probably because the PT compiler is writing out UTF-8 strings, and your web browser is probably interpreting the page as ISO-8859-1 instead.

Two possible solutions:

(1) Get your browser to recognize the page as UTF-8. This can be done with a <META> tag.
(2) Get the PT compiler to output the HTML page in ISO-8859-1. I believe that this can be done with the file_encoding.cfg config file. Or, if you use iwpt_compile.ipl directly (instead of using iwgen/iwregen and the Generate button in the UI), then there is a command-line argument you can use to specify the output encoding.

There may be other ways to solve this problem. Unfortunately, I am not an internationalization/PT expert. Perhaps someone else here is and can propose further solutions?

Hope this helps.
-- James

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James H Koh
Interwoven Engineering