Avoid special chars (now i need help)

[JitseSchaafsma]

So i thougth i solved my problem, guess i did not.

This is the situation.

One of my fields in a database contains special characters, circumflex, grave accent, etc).

I read this variables:

var1="[FMP-Field: textfield,Break]"

When i display var1 in my browser :

window.document.myform1.tekstveld1.value=var1

the text is scrambled. for example i see codes like this : &#235

I have been playing with the field encoding and with escape/unescape function.

How should i proceed now?

For example i can change all the special characters in the filemaker field with their code, but what code?

Any help is welcome

Jitse

[Garry Claridge]

Have you tried the various ways of showing a field:

var1="[FMP-Field: textfield,raw]"

var1="[FMP-Field: textfield,format]"

Good Luck.

Garry

[JitseSchaafsma]

Thanks gary,

indeed i tried that combination.

Now i have made my own javascript encode function.

This is a sample that only changes the dieresus (umlaut mark).

Offcourse this code can be used for all ASCII characters.

Jitse

function encodestrings(encodestr){

var locstr

locstr=encodestr

while(locstr.search("ë")!=-1){

locstr=locstr.replace("ë",String.fromCharCode(235))

}

return locstr

}

[JitseSchaafsma]

Now this is the complete function (that i think does the job)

function encodestrings(encodestr){

var locstr

var codestr

var code

var i =0

var k =0

locstr=encodestr

while (i !=-1) {

i = encodestr.indexOf("&#",i)

k = encodestr.indexOf(";",i)

if (i!=-1){

codestr=encodestr.substr(i+2,k-i-2)

encodestr=encodestr.replace("&#"+codestr+";",String.fromCharCode(codestr))

i=i+1

}

}

while(encodestr.search("<br>")!=-1){

encodestr=encodestr.replace("<br>","n")

}

return encodestr

}

Jitse

[Garry Claridge]

Have you tried something like this:

document.write(unescape("[FMP-Field:textfield]");

Good Luck.

Garry

[JitseSchaafsma]

Thanks Gary,

Indeed i have tried unescape, to no avail.

until now the javascript works good.

Greetings

Jitse