Small Apostrophe problem

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Last Post: December 12, 2011   (RSS)

By northernpenguin - December 9, 2011

I have a small problem which is driving me crazy! My clients website is in both english & french. One of my text fields includes data in this format (french):

Patron d'honneur

When displayed on the website page, it displays like this:

Patron d

Is there anyway to have the complete data field printed (after the ')?

Thanx........ragi
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Re: [northernpenguin] Small Apostrophe problem

By gkornbluth - December 11, 2011

Hi northernpenguin,

Have you tried replacing the ' with an &39; or another ASCII character

here's a link to a chart

http://www.ascii.cl/htmlcodes.htm

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Re: [gkornbluth] Small Apostrophe problem

By northernpenguin - December 11, 2011

Tried that! Didn't work.
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Re: [northernpenguin] Small Apostrophe problem

By gkornbluth - December 11, 2011

How about escaping the ' ?

\'

or an ’

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Re: [northernpenguin] Small Apostrophe problem

By gkornbluth - December 11, 2011

Hi Ragi,

Hope it works. Is this perchance a WYSIWYG field?

I've used a number of accented characters with entities but never a '

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Re: [gkornbluth] Small Apostrophe problem

By northernpenguin - December 11, 2011

Gerry: no, it's a text field. If it was WYSIWYG, then the other solutions would have worked.
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Re: [northernpenguin] Small Apostrophe problem

By Jason - December 12, 2011

Hi,

You can also try htmlspecialcharacters like this:

<?php htmlspecialchars($record['field']);?>

Hope this helps
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