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VFE space character issue

Samir_Friend

TS6.5
Unix

Whenever I paste some text containing spaces in the VFE, it recognizes the spaces but when I preview it, the spaces are displayed as "Â" characters.
For this I tried to replace my actual spaces in the text with [html][/html] tag in the text's HTML but then the VFE is behaving unpredictably - it sometimes cleans up the [html][/html] tags in all content's HTML and sometimes leaves it as it is when I preview it.

I want my VFE to either accept the space characters in the text and display them as [html] [/html] when I preview it; OR
I want to stop the VFE from cleaning the [html][/html] tag.

Any help regarding this is much appreciated.

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Frederik

I believe that there's a non breaking space character in UTF-8 that, when viewed as latin-1, is displayed as "Â".

So, what are you outputting in preview. Does the HTML page declare itself as UTF-8?

Samir_Friend

The problem below has been solved.

The VFE eliminates the [html] [/html] for its HTML text and displays nothing both in WYSIWYG and HTML views. Also, it displays these spaces as "Â" characters in your browser.
It is reportedly a bug in VFE.

Here’s the workaround:

1. In the below piece of code in your visualformat config file, change the charencode value to “charref” if it is UTF-8 or something else.

[html]

mswordfilter="true">

span
div
font
script
…………………………

[/html]
This would give you an output of [html] [/html] wherever there are extraneous spaces in your pasted text.
2. I’ve then handled it in my TPL file to pass the content to a function in utils.pm which replaces the [html] [/html] with [html] [/html]
3. Also, in your TPL, set [html][/html] for the very first line.

Your browser will now display the spaces given in the VFE as [html] [/html] in the source and as a space in its presentation!

Thanks for the help.

aby_sam

Hi Samir, can you try this in your VF config:
&amp;amp;lt;clean charencode="utf-8" cr="cr" lf="lf" showonsize="5000" preferfonttag="false" reducetags="false" showdonemsg="false" prompt="true" hideobject="true" mswordfilter="true"&amp;amp;gt;

Samir_Friend

Hi Samir, can you try this in your VF config:
&amp;amp;lt;clean charencode="utf-8" cr="cr" lf="lf" showonsize="5000" preferfonttag="false" reducetags="false" showdonemsg="false" prompt="true" hideobject="true" mswordfilter="true"&amp;amp;gt;

If I use this value of charencode my VFE doesn't give me an output for the space characters that I could manipulate. Besides, the reducetag attribute also doesn't seem to work in my VFE because the space tag is being cleaned up by it everytime now.