Problems with umlauts

Holzner Roman <[email protected]> Fri, 10 Feb 2006 11:46:43 +0100
Newsgroups	gmane.comp.web.webobjects.devel
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
Hi list

During the developement of our application we've realised the following:

If you use a umlaut (e.g. ä,ö or ü) in the HTML-code (without a  
WOString) and you set everything (WOComponent,XCode,HTML and the  
browser) to UTF-8 encoding before, the browser displays the content  
correctly. All the umlauts were converted from a character into a  
character entity. Out of a ä you have then a &auml; in the .html- 
file. So far, everything is ok.

But if you put the same characters into a WOString, the characters  
are no more displayed correctly. All umlauts are all displayed wrong,  
they were not converted into html-entities (in the .WOO file) and  
they do not seem to be UTF-8 standart characters.

To explain that a little bit better, here a little code-example:

.html:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"  
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
   <head>
     <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;  
charset=utf-8" />
     <title></title>
   </head>
   <body>
   <!-- were converted to from  ä  to &auml; -->
   &auml;&ouml;&uuml;<br> 		
   <webobject name="String1"></webobject>
   </body>
</html>

.wod
String1: WOString
{
	escapeHTML = false;
	value = "äöü";
}

.woo
{"WebObjects Release" = "WebObjects 5.0"; encoding =  
NSUTF8StringEncoding; }

Even more interesting is the effect, when you use text out of a  
database (also set to utf-8) and put it into a WOString. In this case  
the characters are displayed correctly again !?

I know, that I could directly use html-entities instead of  
characters, when I'm using a static WOString. But what shall I do,  
when I have to write in another language (with more special characters)?

Is it a bug, or have I overseen something. Or do I think in a wrong  
direction and you would realise it completly different?


Thanks in advance for your answers

Roman

(version: WOBuilder: 5.3.1, XCode: 2.2, Safari: 2.0.3)

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