Showing special characters

Ok on the server side if I print the result of my query, the little special symbols (^tm and the little circle with an "R" in it, and the copyright symbol) show up.

But when I get the result with AJAX and put it in a div, the "special symbols" are replaced by boxes.

Is there a way I can fix this?

Thanks,

Justin Fox
[ January 27, 2008: Message edited by: Bear Bibeault ]

You should be using HTML entities for the special symbols. ™ for ™ and ® for ®.

Ok, but the thing is, the text is stored in a database on the server, I'm just doing a select statement and returning the recordset in an echo format and then retrieving that echo with AJAX. how do I convert the boxes to what they need to be If all they are when they get to the xmlHttp.responseText are boxes.

Justin Fox

Your best bet is to perform a text substitution on the server before sending the text off as the response.

Thats what I was kind of thinking.

maybe like //trade and //reg and //copy

for the different symbols

Justin Fox

?

good "?", because that didnt work.

I tried to replace all the '™' with //trade, and '®' with //reg and so on.

but it doesn't work.

so I'm pretty much lost...

Justin Fox

After reading the string from the DB just perform a string replacement swapping the special chars (you'll need to lookup or figure out their values) with the HTML entities. I'm not sure what left field //trade came out of.