Avoiding html entities for special characters

[Debilski]

Hi,

currently when using non-ascii input, it seems that Lift tries to replace as many characters as possible with their html entity. E.g. an input ä will generate ä in the output. The same seems to be true for more esoteric entities as well. On the other hand, if there is no entity available, the character will be left untouched as utf-8. (You can easily find out by experimenting with the chat on the lift demo site.)

Is it possible that Lift does not make any conversion at all? It’s not necessary in a properly utf-8’ed document anyway.

Cheers,

/rike

[David Pollak]

Are you using XHTML or Html5?

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[David Pollak]

  /**
   * Should codes that represent entities be converted to XML
   * entities when rendered?
   */
  val convertToEntity: FactoryMaker[Boolean] = new FactoryMaker(false) {}

Set this to true and the entities will not be converted.

On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Debilski <rikebenjami...@googlemail.com> wrote:

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[Debilski]

On 16 Jan., 18:01, David Pollak <feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com> wrote:
>   /**
>    * Should codes that represent entities be converted to XML
>    * entities when rendered?
>    */
>   val convertToEntity: FactoryMaker[Boolean] = new FactoryMaker(false) {}
>
> Set this to true and the entities will not be converted.

Thanks. Unfortunately, it won’t be applied in HTML5 output mode which
I’m using. (I’m also using XHTML input but I think that does not make
a difference here.)

> On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Debilski <
>
>
>
>
>
> rikebenjamin.schupp...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > currently when using non-ascii input, it seems that Lift tries to replace
> > as many characters as possible with their html entity. E.g. an input ä will
> > generate &auml; in the output. The same seems to be true for more esoteric
> > entities as well. On the other hand, if there is no entity available, the
> > character will be left untouched as utf-8. (You can easily find out by
> > experimenting with the chat on the lift demo site.)
>
> > Is it possible that Lift does not make any conversion at all? It’s not
> > necessary in a properly utf-8’ed document anyway.
>
> > Cheers,
> > /rike
>
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[Christopher Taylor]

On 16.01.2011, at 18:01, David Pollak wrote:

> /**
> * Should codes that represent entities be converted to XML
> * entities when rendered?
> */
> val convertToEntity: FactoryMaker[Boolean] = new FactoryMaker(false) {}
>
> Set this to true and the entities will not be converted.

Was that a typo? I'd expect

if (convertToEntity) {
// will be converted to entities
} else {
// won't be converted
}

Regards,
--Chris

[David Pollak]

On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Debilski <rikebenjami...@googlemail.com> wrote:

On 16 Jan., 18:01, David Pollak <feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com> wrote:
>   /**
>    * Should codes that represent entities be converted to XML
>    * entities when rendered?
>    */
>   val convertToEntity: FactoryMaker[Boolean] = new FactoryMaker(false) {}
>
> Set this to true and the entities will not be converted.

Thanks. Unfortunately, it won’t be applied in HTML5 output mode which
I’m using. (I’m also using XHTML input but I think that does not make
a difference here.)

You'll have to write your own custom Html5 emitter to avoid getting the entities escaped.

Feel free to open a ticket on this issue and I'll do what I can to write one for you, but it won't get into Lift until at least 2.3-M1
 

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[Debilski]

On Jan 17, 4:42 am, David Pollak <feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Debilski <
>
>
>
>
>
> rikebenjamin.schupp...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 16 Jan., 18:01, David Pollak <feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >   /**
> > >    * Should codes that represent entities be converted to XML
> > >    * entities when rendered?
> > >    */
> > >   val convertToEntity: FactoryMaker[Boolean] = new FactoryMaker(false) {}
>
> > > Set this to true and the entities will not be converted.
>
> > Thanks. Unfortunately, it won’t be applied in HTML5 output mode which
> > I’m using. (I’m also using XHTML input but I think that does not make
> > a difference here.)
>
> You'll have to write your own custom Html5 emitter to avoid getting the
> entities escaped.
>
> Feel free to open a ticket on this issue and I'll do what I can to write one
> for you, but it won't get into Lift until at least 2.3-M1
>

Done. http://www.assembla.com/spaces/liftweb/tickets/853-make-html5writer-aware-of-liftrules-converttoentity

>
>
>
> > > On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Debilski <
>
> > > rikebenjamin.schupp...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > currently when using non-ascii input, it seems that Lift tries to
> > replace
> > > > as many characters as possible with their html entity. E.g. an input ä
> > will
> > > > generate &auml; in the output. The same seems to be true for more
> > esoteric
> > > > entities as well. On the other hand, if there is no entity available,
> > the
> > > > character will be left untouched as utf-8. (You can easily find out by
> > > > experimenting with the chat on the lift demo site.)
>
> > > > Is it possible that Lift does not make any conversion at all? It’s not
> > > > necessary in a properly utf-8’ed document anyway.
>
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > /rike
>
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