Re: ASCII question, browser converting characters incorrectly

Any chance you could replace any existence of an ampersand with CHR(38) as in

CHR(38) || 'nbsp;' gives you  

On Wed, 21 Jun 2000 18:19:13 GMT, lvcampbell_at_my-deja.com wrote:

>One of my developers posed this question to me and I was curious if
>anyone had any ideas. Our character set is USASCII7.
>
>The problem that we are having is that when we edit certain areas of
>content, special character codes like © and &149; are translated by
>the browser as © and • respectively. Thus when we save the changes from
>the browser(perform an update) the ASCII characters themselves are being
>saved to the database... but Oracle does not seem to support these
>characters and instead saves something like a period (.) or a box ( ).
>
>Any ideas on how to keep these characters coded as they were originally?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Laine
>
>
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Received on Thu Jun 22 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT