Special Character Encoding Preferences

I develop web pages and html emails for multiple countries and prefer to use the decimal encoding rather than the alphanumeric encoding for special characters. see: http://www.freelancedesigners.com/tools/ascii_html_encoding.cfm
Dreamweaver can either place the actual charcter (É) or the alphanumeric (È), but not the decimal (È)
Is there a way to set the decimal as default? or convert an entire page without doing a find replace?
thanks!

Perhaps you should use "value" instead of "onclick".
Think it makes no sense that an renderer should encode onclick - more an passthrough.
In that case you also loose session id if cookie is disalbed.
just try something like
<h:outputLink value='yourURL' onclick='this.href;return false' ...

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XML special character/encoding problem

Hi
I would like to store XML in a MSSQL database into a column with the datatype xml.
It seems like the xml datatype in an xMII transaction allways is stored with encoding type UTF-8
and the MSSQL xml datatype is UTF-16. This gives me some problem with special characters when inserting into the MSSQL database (in the example below is the MSSQL datatype xml):
INSERT INTO
VALUES
The error returned is this:
"com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerException: XML parsing: line 1, character 62, illegal xml character"
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I am currently using a workaround that looks like this, when setting the parameter in my transaction:
stringreplace(Local.test, " encoding=" & doublequote & "UTF-8" & doublequote, "")
But I was hoping I could get rid of the stringreplace.
Is there a solution / recommended way of doing this?
Best Regards
Simon Bruun
Edited by: Simon Bruun on Mar 4, 2011 10:43 AM

I solved this. I convert to Unicode UTF-8

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Am using OAS9i. i ve deployed a webservice. i submit a payload request data that has some unicode characters like "§". The data is base64binary encoded. The type of the element mentioned in the schema is base64binary. When i retrieve the payload in java implementation code the character is displayed as ï¿½ in the console. Please advice how to fix this issue. I tried setting JVM option file.encoding=utf-8 it didnt work out.
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When you use an UDF and you have programmed a Sax parser, then make sure, that the parser works with the correct encoding. So when the result of the webservice is ISO-8859-1, then assign this to the parser.
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I have a problem with special characters in urls.
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Perhaps you should use "value" instead of "onclick".
Think it makes no sense that an renderer should encode onclick - more an passthrough.
In that case you also loose session id if cookie is disalbed.
just try something like
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Special Character Issue in Country Name Côte d'Ivoire encoding ISO-88509-1

soa suite 10.1.3.4
I am reading an xml file using file adapter. The file has encoding type ISO-88509-1 and the country name is coming as <country_name>Côte d'Ivoire</country_name>.
When I see the BPEL instance, this character is converted to "C\234te d'Ivoire" jumbled character. The target endpoints receives the country name in jumbled format only. I can't change the incoming file format. Is there a way I can read it properly and keep the special character as it is during SOA process.
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Any idea on this ? My soa suite server is on Solaris and the folder where I am reading the file from is on Windows.

Encoding-Special Character-poi

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I am trying to read data from xls file using POI api's for some special character when trying to read Im not getiing them read or uploded into database properly. However the same data when uploaded from txt file using a text parser is being read properly.
Can anyone tell me where to set the encoding of the data read from xls to iso-8859-1 in
POI api's .
One more thing do we set or get encoding for cell or workbook.
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When you use an UDF and you have programmed a Sax parser, then make sure, that the parser works with the correct encoding. So when the result of the webservice is ISO-8859-1, then assign this to the parser.
In principle the encoding should be part of XML header. Make sure that the encoding of the response is the same as declared in XML header.

How to insert special character in sgm file and interprete it without isoents while opening in FM9.0

I have an sgm file which contains special characters in different languages.
<!DOCTYPE MANUAL PUBLIC "-//SWE-XXX//DTD XXX MANUAL-DTD 2.0//EN">
<MANUAL LANG="CS">
<TITEL>
Polish characters: óê¿ñæÑÆÊ¥Ó£
Czech characters: éìóïáøèíùòú&Og rave;ÌÉÓÚÙÈØÍÁÏ aacute: á</TITEL>
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entity "oacute" is fm char 0x00F3;
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ó
&x00F3;
&0x00F3;
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Hi Michael. Thank you for your reply.
There is no declaration within sgm file itself - but while opening the file I use sgml application definition with the following settings:
Default API client: FmTranslator
SGML character encoding: ISO Latin1
XML character encoding: UTF-8
Namespace: Enable
CSS2 Preferences:
Generate CSS2: Disable
Add Fm CSS Attribute To XML: Disable
Retain Stylesheet Information: Disable
Entity locations
Entity search paths
C:\Program Files\Adobe\FrameMaker9\Structure\sgml\isoents
So as you can see, character encoding is set to ISO Latin1 (there is no way to use UTF-8 encoding in sgml files)
Typing ź or ć in sgm document and opening it with framemaker sgml application - I receive: ¿æ and message: "Non-SGML character found; should have been character reference"
Everything works fine when I type f.ex.: &x016B; and insert appropriate reference lines into isolat1.rw and isolat1.ent files
But what I would like to avoid is editing those isoent files each time new character is be needed.

Xml publisher reprot - special character problem

I invoice report through xml publisher. I have '&' special character in vendor list. I am getting below error
A semi colon character was expected. Error processing resource.
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CREATE OR REPLACE PACKAGE BODY XML_RPT AS
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    l_ret_str VARCHAR2(5000);
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        l_ret_str := '<'||p_tag||'>'||p_data||'</'||p_tag||'>';
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                     retcode         OUT NUMBER) IS
    CURSOR inv_Cur IS
        select pv.vendor_name
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     l_sqlstr           varchar2(1000);
     l_seqnum           varchar2(3);
     l_vendor_name      varchar2(100);
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          xmldata := '<VENDOR_REC>';
          l_vendor_name := replace(rpt_rec.VENDOR_NAME,'&','&amp');
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      xmldata := xmldata||'</VENDOR>';
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XML Data from PL/SQL procedure -- special character issue (eBS)

Hi All,
I am developing a report, where the XML data is created by a PL/SQL procedure. I chose this approach over a data template, since there is a lot of processing involved in producing the actual data, and it cannot be done by select-statements alone. The report is run as a regular concurrent request.
So far so good. There is a problem though. Every time the data contains special characters (ä, ö, umlauts), the concurrent request is completed with a warning, the log confirms that "One or more post-processing actions failed.", also there is no output file. The XML structure is valid as such. The report runs smoothly and produces the output when the XML data does not contain special characters.
I am producing the XML lines by using the standard FND_FILE.PUT_LINE procedure: Fnd_File.put_line(Fnd_File.output, '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>'); This seems like a character encoding issue, but declaring the UTF-8 encoding in this way does not solve the problem.
Any ideas what can be done to fix this? I have been searching Metalink but cannot find an answer. Many thanks for your kind help.
Best Regards, Matilda

Hi Rajesh,
One idea I have, is that it might be possible to modify the PL/SQL code into a "before report" type trigger, attached to a data template. The code would process the data and write the lines into a temporary table, from which the data template could retrieve them in a simple select-query. However, it would be neat to be able to solve this without adding an extra layer of processing, since BI Publisher supposedly supports PL/SQL procedures as the data source.
The data in this case is all correct, special characters are an intrinsic feature of the Finnish language. :)
Best Regards, Matilda

Need to prevent special character in generated XML file

Hello,
I am using E-business Suite 12.1.3 and XML version 5.6.3.
My XML file is ending up with a special character (a Latin capital letter U with circumflex) at the end, after the final closing tag.
Due to this the concurrent program that needs to output the XML is ending with warning.
My XML file is produced using a PL/SQL procedure, as follows (I've simplified it):
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FND_FILE.PUT_LINE(FND_FILE.OUTPUT,'<DOCS>');
FND_FILE.PUT_LINE(FND_FILE.OUTPUT,'<LETTER>');
FND_FILE.PUT_LINE(FND_FILE.OUTPUT,'<EMP_NAME>Michaela Hart</EMP_NAME>');
FND_FILE.PUT_LINE(FND_FILE.OUTPUT,'</LETTER>');
FND_FILE.PUT_LINE(FND_FILE.OUTPUT,'</DOCS>');
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Invalid at the top level of the document. Error processing resource 'http://servername.domain...
</DOCS>
If I view the source of the page in Internet Explorer it shows a square after </DOCS> indicating the special character that has been added.
I checked this by looking at the output file in unix (cat -v o7766582.req) and it showed up the Latin U character.
I realise it could be to do with the character set I am using. I checked what we had on the server:
> echo $NLS_LANG
American_America.UTF8
I would have thought that corresponded with the XML declaration character set but I'm not sure.
Does anyone have any other ideas about why I have this special character, and how it could be removed?
Thanks in advance,
Hazel

Hi AlexAnd,
thanks very much for your reply.
I'm now unable to recreate the problem since dbms_xmlgen worked. If I switch back to my previous method it works fine!
I'm not sure your suggestion would help, as there were no special characters in the data, the special character was added after the last tag I output. I hard coded the data (as in my example) for testing purposes so there was no SQL in use and the special character was still added at the end of the XML output. But I will definitely give it a try if I get the problem again.
I had the idea that maybe I should have been using FND_FILE.PUT rather than FND_FILE.PUT_LINE but now the error is gone I can't tell if that would have solved the problem either.
I appreciate your input.
Regards
Hazel

Special character and htp.p()

I am trying to use PL/SQL procedure to present my customized item.
If user type in secial character, e.g. single quote ', in the attribute, I got this error on the page:
Error 30584: DBMS_SQL has raised an unhandled exception. ORA-06550: line 1, column 327: PLS-00103: Encountered the symbol "03" when expecting one of the following: . ( ) , * @ % & = - + < / > at in is mod not rem <> or != or ~= >= <= <> and or like between ||
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Hi - thanks very much the reply. I will bear your suggestions in mind in future as they are very useful.
I got around the problem I was having by doing the following:
The line of JavaScript I wanted to output to the page was:
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Request.getParameter(): special character handling problem

Hello, there:
This should be an easy question for the gurus in here.
I use a string attached to the url as the parameter string, which includes spaces. the system automatically converts them to %20, but when I receive them in my servlet using request.getParameter, a special character, Â appears; I couldn't proceed with it.
I suppose this is a common problem but seems that I didn't find topics about it on this forum.
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hi,
escape can solve ur problem
use js function to submit form like
function subForm()
var any_spcl_value ="kdfhjdf$%@#$% 2FGSFG @%@#%@# V";
mainForm.action = "index.jsp?value="+ escape(any_spcl_value);
mainForm.submit();
and use request.getParameter("value");
u ll get kdfhjdf$%@#$% 2FGSFG @%@#%@# V as it is.
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Biztalk error if "&" special character is used from Oracle Database

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encode the message. Does any way to do encoding when biztalk receive data?
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The service instance will remain suspended until administratively resumed or terminated.
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There are 5 special characters which in xml & < > " ' if the Oracle fields contain any of those characters it will cause invaild xml.
This can be solved at the oracle side be replacing the special characters by it's html encode equivalent, so & becomes & , I think the best way to solve it
is to make a custom pipeline component and translate the special characters there.
There is my Send Port Properties. Do you mean the default biztalk pipeline component ("XML Receive") cannot translate any special characters?

LR 2 - special character in caption field

I'm using LR 2.6 and a custom template to generate a flash gallery.
The problem is my language which is Norwegian and contains characters like æøå and these behave strange when creating a web gallery.
In the library the caption field looks ok, but when exported to web, they make an extra whitespace and that's annoying.
I've looked into the xml file and can't see any whitespace there, so probably the problem appears when the swf file is created.
How do I control the output in the caption field when using special characters?
I've tried to change the encoding in the group.xml file, but it doesn't help. Also tried using entities for the characters such as å and å, it didn't help either.
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Hi
Refer this link
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/6e7a7eae-26fc-467f-bfdc-7c5d5ff49a95/discussion-forum-storing-special-character-in-title-differently?forum=sharepointdevelopmentlegacy
It seems that SharePoint will allow the Title of the discussion board to remain with the special characters, but the actual URL will not be allowed and will strip them from the final URL. SharePoint Manager easily shows this, btw.
So, there are probably many different ways to get what you are looking for, but one way could be to have a Linq query look for all Discussion Boards on a given site and then return the Title and the DefaultViewUrl, which the latter could then be prefixed by
the SPWeb.Url to give you something like "Testing? , /" for the title and http://mysite/Lists/Testing/AllItems.aspx (assuming
that is the actual default view) which you could then use as the final URL for your hyperlink in your web part.
In the code snippet below you can see the Linq query (which I assumed from your post that you need to query to find the Discussion Boards) and a simple DataTable that you could then use to populate a repeater or you just omit the DataTable and
enumerate the results from the query yourself:
var linqResults
= from list in oSPWeb.Lists.Cast<SPList>() where list.BaseTemplate
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DataTable oDataTable
= new DataTable();
DataColumn oDataColumn_Title
= new DataColumn("Title", typeof(string));
oDataTable.Columns.Add(oDataColumn_Title);
DataColumn oDataColumn_URL
= new DataColumn("URL", typeof(string));
oDataTable.Columns.Add(oDataColumn_URL);
foreach (SPList oSPList in linqResults)
DataRow oDataRow
= oDataTable.NewRow();
oDataRow[
"Title"]
= oSPList.Title.ToString();
oDataRow[
"URL"]
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Handle special character in mapping

Hi Experts,
I have requirement to handle special character in mapping.
ö this tiny special charcter comes in I/O file and we cant avoid.
Refering the given blog: http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/9420 [original link is broken]
FILE --- XI --- FILE where Source and target structures are same, using 1:1 mapping with FCC at both the side..
Input/Output files consist of special charcters ö due to which getting error in mapping.
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Do we required Java mapping? Is there any other way to acheive wtihout using Java mapping?
How can we hadle in mapping?
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ö this tiny special charcter comes in I/O file and we cant avoid.
Refering the given blog: http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/9420 [original link is broken]
What has an ö to do with an ampersand?
Assign the correct encoding to the file adapter channel.

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