Rails - Dec 2005 - Convert "é" in "é"

I try to find an function to convert characters in html chars. "é" 
become "é"

There is something in RoR 1.0 to do that ?

oo00oo
     > I try to find an function to convert characters in html chars.
"é"
     > become "é"


If you''re a TextMate user,
    1°: select the character to convert
    2°: press Command+&
and voilà.

Alain

Hi,

Don''t know where you live (language wise), but if you use charset 
"ISO-8859-15" these are properly handeld in several browsers. Full
html
metatag is as follows:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type"
content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-15"/>

Regards,

Gerard.

On Friday 30 December 2005 20:46, oo00oo tried to type something
like:
> I try to find an function to convert characters in html chars.
"é"
> become "&eacute;"
>
> There is something in RoR 1.0 to do that ?
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My $Grtz =~ Gerard;
~
:wq!

If you''re using UTF-8, you can try my tip for converting UTF-8  
characters in to numerical
HTML entities. These take the form of &#XXXX; and describe a unicode  
character code;
works the same way as named entities like é do.

See rails.techno-weenie.net/tip/2005/12/30 
unicode_escaping_h_variant

-Thomas


Am 30.12.2005 um 20:46 schrieb oo00oo:
> I try to find an function to convert characters in html chars.
"?"
> become "é"
>
> There is something in RoR 1.0 to do that ?
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Thanks for reply. I write this little function to do what I need.

<%= getStringEncodedToHtml ( "h?h?" ) %> ( function below )
become
h&eacute;h&agrave;

I''m new to RoR and Ruby. Someone could tell me if this function could
be
more optimized ?
I use has_key but perhaprs there is a faster method.

Thanks


def getStringEncodedToHtml ( pString )
    
    str = String.new( pString )
    
    map = {
        34 => "quot",        # "
        38 => "amp",        # &
        39 => "apos",        # ''
        60 => "lt",            # <
        62 => "gt",            # >
        169 => "copy",        # ?
        171 => "laquo",        # ?
        174 => "reg",        # ?
        187 => "raquo",        # ?
        192 => "Agrave",    # ?
        194 => "Acirc",        # ?
        198 => "AElig",        # ?
        199 => "Ccedil",    # ?
        200 => "Egrave",    # ?
        201 => "Eacute",    # ?
        202 => "Ecirc",        # ?
        203 => "Euml",        # ?
        206 => "Icirc",        # ?
        207 => "Iuml",        # ?
        212 => "Ocirc",        # ?
        214 => "Ouml",        # ?
        217 => "Ugrave",    # ?
        219 => "Ucirc",        # ?
        220 => "Uuml",        # ?
        224 => "agrave",    # ?
        225 => "aacute",    # ?
        226 => "acirc",        # ?
        228 => "auml",        # ?
        230 => "aelig",        # ?
        231 => "ccedil",    # ?
        232 => "egrave",    # ?
        233 => "eacute",    # ?
        234 => "ecirc",        # ?
        235 => "euml",        # ?
        238 => "icirc",        # ?
        239 => "iuml",        # ?
        244 => "ocirc",        # ?
        246 => "ouml",        # ?
        249 => "ugrave",    # ?
        251 => "ucirc",        # ?
        252 => "uuml",        # ?
    }

    lng = str.length
    while lng > 0
        if map.has_key?( str[ lng ] )
            str[ lng ] = "&" + map[ str[ lng ] ] + ";"
        end
        lng -= 1
    end
    
    return str
end




> If you''re using UTF-8, you can try my tip for converting UTF-8  
> characters in to numerical
> HTML entities. These take the form of &#XXXX; and describe a unicode  
> character code;
> works the same way as named entities like &eacute; do.
>
> See rails.techno-weenie.net/tip/2005/12/30 
> unicode_escaping_h_variant
>
> -Thomas
>
>
> Am 30.12.2005 um 20:46 schrieb oo00oo:
>
>> I try to find an function to convert characters in html chars.
"?"
>> become "&eacute;"
>>
>> There is something in RoR 1.0 to do that ?
>> _______________________________________________
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>> Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
>> lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
>
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