[Mapserver-users] HTML characters in template

[Berend Veldkamp]

That shouldn't be too hard if you just convert the basic characters
that could mess up html code: <, >, " and maybe &. If you want to
convert all characters (å, é, €, ...)  you'd need to know which
characterset the data is in. But most modern browsers display these
characters ok anyway, so it's not a priority, I guess.

BTW It would be nice if 'characterset' was a property of the layer
object, we sometimes experience problems when maplabels contain
special characters, or can this be changed in some way already?

Berend


Steve Lime wrote:
> 
> Yup, but I'm not sure it fixes your problem. The _esc replacement is
> basically there so you could escape data for inclusion in other URLs.
> Special characters are replaced with their hexidecimal ascii codes so a
> space becomes %20 and so on. I think what you want is html escapes and
> we'd need to add that, probably as another substitution qualifier:
> 
>   [variable_html] or something like that
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Steve
> 

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