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TextToHTMLEntities ( theString )

converts a string into HTML entities

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Substitute ( theString ; [ "&" ; "&" ] ; [ " " ; " " ] ; [ "¡" ; "¡" ] ; [ "¢" ; "¢" ] ; [ "£" ; "£" ] ; [ "¤" ; "¤" ] ; [ "¥" ; "¥" ] ; [ "¦" ; "¦" ] ; [ "§" ; "§" ] ; [ "¨" ; "¨" ] ; [ "©" ; "©" ] ; [ "ª" ; "ª" ] ; [ "«" ; "«" ] ; [ "¬" ; "¬" ] ; [ "­" ; "­" ] ; [ "®" ; "®" ] ; [ "¯" ; "¯" ] ; [ "°" ; "°" ] ; [ "±" ; "±" ] ; [ "²" ; "²" ] ; [ "³" ; "³" ] ; [ "´" ; "´" ] ; [ "µ" ; "µ" ] ; [ "¶" ; "¶" ] ; [ "·" ; "·" ] ; [ "¸" ; "¸" ] ; [ "¹" ; "¹" ] ; [ "º" ; "º" ] ; [ "»" ; "»" ] ; [ "¼" ; "¼" ] ; [ "½" ; "½" ] ; [ "¾" ; "¾" ] ; [ "¿" ; "¿" ] ; [ "À" ; "À" ] ; [ "Á" ; "Á" ] ; [ "Â" ; "Â" ] ; [ "Ã" ; "Ã" ] ; [ "Ä" ; "Ä" ] ; [ "Å" ; "Å" ] ; [ "Æ" ; "Æ" ] ; [ "Ç" ; "Ç" ] ; [ "È" ; "È" ] ; [ "É" ; "É" ] ; [ "Ê" ; "Ê" ] ; [ "Ë" ; "Ë" ] ; [ "Ì" ; "Ì" ] ; [ "Í" ; "Í" ] ; [ "Î" ; "Î" ] ; [ "Ï" ; "Ï" ] ; [ "Ð" ; "Ð" ] ; [ "Ñ" ; "Ñ" ] ; [ "Ò" ; "Ò" ] ; [ "Ó" ; "Ó" ] ; [ "Ô" ; "Ô" ] ; [ "Õ" ; "Õ" ] ; [ "Ö" ; "Ö" ] ; [ "×" ; "×" ] ; [ "Ø" ; "Ø" ] ; [ "Ù" ; "Ù" ] ; [ "Ú" ; "Ú" ] ; [ "Û" ; "Û" ] ; [ "Ü" ; "Ü" ] ; [ "Ý" ; "Ý" ] ; [ "Þ" ; "Þ" ] ; [ "ß" ; "ß" ] ; [ "à" ; "à" ] ; [ "á" ; "á" ] ; [ "â" ; "â" ] ; [ "ã" ; "ã" ] ; [ "ä" ; "ä" ] ; [ "å" ; "å" ] ; [ "æ" ; "æ" ] ; [ "ç" ; "ç" ] ; [ "è" ; "è" ] ; [ "é" ; "é" ] ; [ "ê" ; "ê" ] ; [ "ë" ; "ë" ] ; [ "ì" ; "ì" ] ; [ "í" ; "í" ] ; [ "î" ; "î" ] ; [ "ï" ; "ï" ] ; [ "ð" ; "ð" ] ; [ "ñ" ; "ñ" ] ; [ "ò" ; "ò" ] ; [ "ó" ; "ó" ] ; [ "ô" ; "ô" ] ; [ "õ" ; "õ" ] ; [ "ö" ; "ö" ] ; [ "÷" ; "÷" ] ; [ "ø" ; "ø" ] ; [ "ù" ; "ù" ] ; [ "ú" ; "ú" ] ; [ "û" ; "û" ] ; [ "ü" ; "ü" ] ; [ "ý" ; "ý" ] ; [ "þ" ; "þ" ] ; [ "ÿ" ; "ÿ" ] ) Click to copy

HTML files can only contain a limited set of characters. This custom functions encodes special characters that fall outside this set into HTML entities which - when rendered in a browser - will display the special character.

 

Comments

		Sean, Private Jan 21, 2010
I would not replace every space with &nsp; as that just gets messy. It's double spaces you have to worry about. So turn [ " " ; " " ] ; into [ "  " ; "  " ]; which makes the second space a no-breaking space. There are also several issues with characters that may need to be escaped. You may not always want ¶, ", and & converted to an html entity. Just my 2¢.

		Philip McGeehan, SMD Ltd Apr 7, 2020
I needed to add a condition for an apostrophe. Because substitutions are preformed in the order they are listed - the ampersand must be the first condition! If it was not the first condition: "'" gets turned into "'" then "'" gets turned into "'" Hopefully this will save other people getting as confused as I did!

		Philip McGeehan, SMD Ltd Apr 7, 2020
"'" gets turned into "& apos ;" then "& apos ;" gets turned into "& amp ; apos ;" (ignore the spaces above, they are added to stop them getting converted)

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