entities in DCRs eg.. why is è re-encoded

Piers

I have the problem whereby I'm creating DCR's automatically from a database and the database contains extended characters such as French, and German characters.


By using HTML::Entities::encode($var)

I can encode these into their correct HTML entities

BUT

Teamsite templating doesn't like è and would prefer to see è

whereas '

is ok.

Anyone shed anylight on this, and an easy solution - as opposed to manually searching for every entitiy and replacing them correctly.

Thanks

Edited by Piers on 06/30/03 04:04 PM (server time).

Migrateduser

I think ' is valid XML, but è is not. There is a way to define HTML entities for use by XML but you would probably have to edit the DCR DTD and even then I doubt TeamSite would encode using them.