Html entities in forms not rendered in ODK Collect

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Hi,

Html entities within texts in forms are not decoded in ODK Collect. Or
at least not numeric entities such as 见 (chinese characters).

They are shown literally (ampersand hash numbers semicolon).

Is this the expected behaviour??? Shouldn't html entities be decoded??

thanks
m.

2

Matteo,

Works for me on Android 4.0.2, and I'm pretty sure it works on other
versions of Android. Also tried '™' which is the trademark
lettering.

Yaw

··· On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 05:59, Matteo Sisti Sette wrote: > Hi, > > Html entities within texts in forms are not decoded in ODK Collect. Or at > least not numeric entities such as 见 (chinese characters). > > They are shown literally (ampersand hash numbers semicolon). > > Is this the expected behaviour??? Shouldn't html entities be decoded?? > > thanks > m.
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Is it possible that this has been fixed after Collect 1.1.7?

I'm using 1.1.7 because I've "hacked" it a little bit (when that was
the latest version) and I still haven't learned how to generate a
patch of my changes and apply it to a newer version.

··· 2012/2/16 Yaw Anokwa : > Matteo, > > Works for me on Android 4.0.2, and I'm pretty sure it works on other > versions of Android. Also tried '™' which is the trademark > lettering. > > Yaw > > On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 05:59, Matteo Sisti Sette wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Html entities within texts in forms are not decoded in ODK Collect. Or at >> least not numeric entities such as 见 (chinese characters). >> >> They are shown literally (ampersand hash numbers semicolon). >> >> Is this the expected behaviour??? Shouldn't html entities be decoded?? >> >> thanks >> m.

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Probably not. We've supported XML entities for a long time.

··· On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:41, matteo sisti sette wrote: > Is it possible that this has been fixed after Collect 1.1.7? > > I'm using 1.1.7 because I've "hacked" it a little bit (when that was > the latest version) and I still haven't learned how to generate a > patch of my changes and apply it to a newer version. > > 2012/2/16 Yaw Anokwa : >> Matteo, >> >> Works for me on Android 4.0.2, and I'm pretty sure it works on other >> versions of Android. Also tried '™' which is the trademark >> lettering. >> >> Yaw >> >> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 05:59, Matteo Sisti Sette wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Html entities within texts in forms are not decoded in ODK Collect. Or at >>> least not numeric entities such as 见 (chinese characters). >>> >>> They are shown literally (ampersand hash numbers semicolon). >>> >>> Is this the expected behaviour??? Shouldn't html entities be decoded?? >>> >>> thanks >>> m. > > > > -- > Matteo Sisti Sette > matteosistisette@gmail.com > http://www.matteosistisette.com
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Ouchhh SORRY FORGET ABOUT IT

I'm actually serving the form the wrong way (encoding html entities twice)!!

:blush: :x :#

··· 2012/2/16 matteo sisti sette : > Is it possible that this has been fixed after Collect 1.1.7? > > I'm using 1.1.7 because I've "hacked" it a little bit (when that was > the latest version) and I still haven't learned how to generate a > patch of my changes and apply it to a newer version. > > 2012/2/16 Yaw Anokwa : >> Matteo, >> >> Works for me on Android 4.0.2, and I'm pretty sure it works on other >> versions of Android. Also tried '™' which is the trademark >> lettering. >> >> Yaw >> >> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 05:59, Matteo Sisti Sette wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Html entities within texts in forms are not decoded in ODK Collect. Or at >>> least not numeric entities such as 见 (chinese characters). >>> >>> They are shown literally (ampersand hash numbers semicolon). >>> >>> Is this the expected behaviour??? Shouldn't html entities be decoded?? >>> >>> thanks >>> m. > > > > -- > Matteo Sisti Sette > matteosistisette@gmail.com > http://www.matteosistisette.com

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