As per our previous conversation...Mike Brown wrote:
>
> Raj wrote:
> > I have a HTML document and I wish to convert a part of it and store it as an
> > XML document. I'm using VB and I find that in a sentence like:
> >
> > <P> This is Will Smith's Wild West Zone </P>
> >
> > the apostrophy ( ' ) is intrepreted and displayed as a Question (?) mark.
> > Is there a way to overcome this problem?
>
> It's probably not an apostrophe but a right single quotation mark, which
> I'm not going to bother to attempt to paste into this ASCII email, since
> it's well outside the ASCII range.
>
> You will probably find it helpful to know that this character's Unicode
> scalar value is 8217 decimal, or 2019 hex. In HTML and XML you could write
> ’ or ’ but you may prefer to just replace instances of these
> characters with regular apostrophes (decimal 39 or hex 27).
>
> Your application apparently knows that it is character number 8217, but it
> is unable to represent it in the character map that is being used for your
> output. For example, if you are emitting iso-8859-1 output, there is no
> right single quotation mark in this encoding. Hence the question mark.
>
> - Mike
> _____________________________________________________________________________
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Raj wrote: > I have a HTML document and I wish to convert a part of it and store it as an > XML document. I'm using VB and I find that in a sentence like: > > <P> This is Will Smith's Wild West Zone </P> > > the apostrophy ( ' ) is intrepreted and displayed as a Question (?) mark. > Is there a way to overcome this problem?
It's probably not an apostrophe but a right single quotation mark, which I'm not going to bother to attempt to paste into this ASCII email, since it's well outside the ASCII range.
You will probably find it helpful to know that this character's Unicode scalar value is 8217 decimal, or 2019 hex. In HTML and XML you could write ’ or ’ but you may prefer to just replace instances of these characters with regular apostrophes (decimal 39 or hex 27).
Your application apparently knows that it is character number 8217, but it is unable to represent it in the character map that is being used for your output. For example, if you are emitting iso-8859-1 output, there is no right single quotation mark in this encoding. Hence the question mark.
- Mike _____________________________________________________________________________ mike j. brown, software engineer at | xml/xslt: http://skew.org/xml/ webb.net in denver, colorado, USA | personal: http://hyperreal.org/~mike/
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