Special characters in Webspeed

[bohrmann]

Hi,

I have some problems with special characters (é, á, à) when displaying texts from the text field of a database table.
My code looks like this:
FUNCTION f1 RETURNS LOGICAL
(INPUT cString AS CHARACTER):
[FONT=r_ansi] {&OUT} '<center>' + cString + '</center>' SKIP.[/FONT]
END.
[FONT=r_ansi][FONT=r_ansi] [/FONT][/FONT]
The cString gets the value from the database. It's properly displayed in the character-based Progress application, but not in Webspeed (strange symbols appear instead, eg. �).

Any idea, how we can influence the output in this case?

Progress 9.1E
SUN Solaris

Thanks,
Peter

 

[Rob Fitzpatrick]

Why do you consider accented characters "special"?

If the same code receiving the same input provides different output in WebSpeed versus tty client, I would check the code pages that are in use in each.

 

[Marian EDU]

I would check the code pages that are in use in each.

that will be the "charset" option when you set the content-type header property (output-content-type api) - "Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"

if you need to accommodate data in different character encoding then you have to move to UTF and make sure you encode everything you pass to the web-stream using that code page.

 

[bohrmann]

Thanks, that seems to work well! Any idea why it could have been set to utf-8, though the developers must have known that those kind of characters will be many times entered when certain field values are prompted?