Apostrophe Coding

[terry...@my-deja.com]

My company uses a database that doesn't accept the apostrophe symbol.
I do not know the name of the database, but it feeds our web pages.
(the word "my company's" come out "my company s" Does anyone know of an
alternative string for the ' symbol, like a space has? I have yet to
come across one, but I need to find something to overcome --

Terry

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[sa...@my-deja.com]

Hi Terry,

The HTML code for an apostrophe is '
You'll have to replace ' with ' before it gets into the database.

Sarvy Emo
Declan Consulting

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[Jukka Korpela]

On Mon, 15 May 2000 13:33:01 GMT, terry...@my-deja.com wrote:

>My company uses a database that doesn't accept the apostrophe symbol.

Sounds very strange, if you mean the good old Ascii apostrophe. Are you
sure you have analyzed the problem correctly? As usual, a URL would
illustrate things. (It would surely not tell everything, but now we have
really nothing.)

>I do not know the name of the database, but it feeds our web pages.
>(the word "my company's" come out "my company s" Does anyone know of an
>alternative string for the ' symbol, like a space has?

Huh? In HTML, you can use &#number; reference for everything, such as
&#32; for space or &#39;, but normally there's no reason to use them for
Ascii characters.

But do you mean apostrophes in texts _returned_ from a database
(somehow) or in texts _sent_ in database queries? That makes a big
difference.
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