HTML Character Entities

khosinski · Post by **khosinski** » Wed Sep 24, 2003 10:08 am

I'm have a problem where HTML Entities are being parsed incorrectly. For example a html code "&" will display on the search results in the browser as "&" not "&". If you looked at the html source from the search results it will look like this "&"

If anyone has any suggestions please let me know.
Thanks.

Post by **Kai** » Wed Sep 24, 2003 10:45 am

That should be interpreted correctly. What version of Webinator is this? Can you give an example public URL demonstrating the issue?

khosinski · Post by **khosinski** » Wed Sep 24, 2003 10:51 am

Hi Kai,

Here is the link you can use for the search results.
http://search2.ipc-world.com/texis.exe/ ... q=&jump=10

We are using Version 4.3

Thanks

Post by **Kai** » Wed Sep 24, 2003 11:48 am

The entities on that page are actually multi-byte (non-ISO-8859) entities, which Webinator must leave intact for its ISO-8859 output (Unicode support will be in the next major release). However, they are then re-escaped as part of the output process.

There is a workaround that involves a minor edit to the script; see the thread at:
http://thunderstone.master.com/texis/ma ... 3eb12f3c10