HTML - Help With Character Encoding

Hi,

I'm using JavaScript to write out an html form (you can ignore the JS and just look at the html form). I'm trying to build a URL in the form using hidden inputs. Everything works fine, except when the user hits the run button the '%' signs get turned into '%25'... so the URL looks something like:

Code:

http://sampleformaction.com/query?CMD_1=%2526CMD%253Dname_of_command%2526field_1%253Dvalue_1%2526field_2%253Dvalue_2&CMD_2=

....

I've tried changing my percent signs in the value tag to %25, but then I just end up with %252526... Any ideas?

Thanks

Code:

link_html += "<input type='hidden' name='CMD_1' value='%26CMD%3Dname_of_command%26field_1%3Dvalue_1%26field_2%3Dvalue_2' />";

link_html += "<input type='submit' value='Run' />";
link_html += "</form>";

document.getElementById('report_links').innerHTML = link_html;

In a html file I found, it had

‎ & # 8 2 0 6 ;

(The above but without whitespace in it.)
Does anyone know which character this is for?

Hi gang!

i have had limited exposure to different page encodings..

the two most popular encodings i have seen around a

utf-8

iso-8859-1

what's the primary difference between the two? i noticed that Google largly uses utf-8

i tried searching through w3c and on google and i know it's probably me but where could i find a good explaination of the pros and cons of both of these?



for example, is it better to use iso-8859-1 when designing a file transfer mechanism

and utf-8 for general page language proper translation via various online website translators like Google's

hi !
I need help with chars encoding on some project
in source with encoding "Windows-1251" I have line Code:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1251" />

but when I or someone other visit site encoding is UTF-8 and he can't read Cyrillic chars
any help will be good for me

I am stumped finding the right decoder for this.

For example, a string like "farmer&#39s" obviously wiould decode to "farmer's". I can't figure out what this type of encoding is called.

I'm trying to find the right decoder for it. (Searching on punctuation symbols doesn't work too well for me.) When I put it between html tags, it shows up with the coding, so my browser isn't decoding it.

Can someone steer me in the right direction?

Thanks

I'm using Amaya to write some really simple HTML. If I insert any characters in the range 128-255 (e.g. the degree symbol, 176, or non-breaking space, 160) then instead of embedding ' ' or '°' into the document it actually puts in the byte sequence 0 194 0 176 (degree symbol) or 0 194 0 160 (non-breaking space). In hex these sequences look like 00 C2 00 B0 or 00 C2 00 A0. So it appears that 194 (xC2) is some kind of escape character. However I can find no documentation anywhere which mentions that this is valid HTML - can anyone point me at some?

Mike

I am srahasan. I have faced some problem with manually change the encoding of the HTML files to US or Western ASCII.

pls any one help me about this matter.


thnx in advance.

srahsan

Such is called 'x bar' in mathematics.

Hi all,

I ran a link check for my site using software. and i got the errors as INVALID CHARACTER details are as below.

Page -
Category - 108 - Invalid character
Date - 11/16/08
Severity - 5
Message - The character " ( 0x22 ) is not a valid ASCII character

can anyone pls let me know what is this error and how could it be resolve ??

thanks a lot

Hey Guys, im new to this forum and i am in desperate need of help!!

I have a site and when everypage loads it has a internet explorer error load. When double clicking the error it comes up with two different invalid errors and i cant work out how to solve the problem...(pretty new to the webworld)

first one:

Line: 2
Char: 1
Error Invalid Character
Code: 0
URL: http://content.thisis.co.uk/gloucest...home/home.html

Second one:

Line: 199
Char: 1
Error Invalid Character
Code: 0
URL: http://content.thisis.co.uk/gloucest...home/home.html

What does all this mean?!

The code for the test is to long to add........

Im just so stuck!!!!!!

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Many thanks in advance!

Matt

Hi,

Can I display unicode character(i.e down arrow)

BLACK DOWN-POINTING TRIANGLE
▼ 9660 using javascript on my page.

Can you plz guide me.


Thanks
With Regards

Hello everyone this is my first time htmlforums.com and i have a quick and hopefully simple question for you guys to answer. I have this code for a flash audio player and in the html code of the whole thing theres a part that looks like this: PHP Code:
...&ShowPlaylist=1&ShowEQ=1&firstTrack=5&initVol=100" wmode="transparent" /></embed><BR><CENTER><A 


Where it says firstTrack=# instead of 5 or any other number is there some sort of character that i can type in to make it choose randomly out of total of nine tracks?

Thanks for the help.

Hi guys,

just wanna ask if there is a single letter entity valid for html codes, e.g &E; &C; etc..

thanks,
My

I'm sure this is simple but it's got me baffled! I am basically trying to put a link to a jpg in a text description box using the following code:


<mg src="http://i310.photobucket.com/albums/kk437/timpotter_photos/Apex/The_Apex_Researcher_Fixed_2009.jpg">

however, for some reason when I go back to edit the text it is displayed as:


&lt;img src="http://i310.photobucket.com/albums/kk437/timpotter_photos/Apex/The_Apex_Researcher_Fixed_2009.jpg"&gt;

Is there a way of stopping the < and > characters from changing to &lt; and &gt; because at the moment the code is just appearing on the screen in the description rather than the picture I'm linking to!

any help would be greatly appreciated!!