[FX.php List] Bad apostrophe character confounds FMP

Alex Gates alex at gandrpublishing.com
Sun Dec 9 20:11:12 MST 2007


Hi Jonathan -

Couple questions -

- How does the apostrophe look in FM?

- What encoding are you using on your page?

Alex

Jonathan Schwartz wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> I spent a bunch of time diagnosing a 958 error that was eventually 
> narrowed down to a character in the name "O'Doherty".  The application 
> loads an existing FMP record into a session, allows editing and then 
> creates a new record based on the eited data.  The apostrophe appeared 
> as "%92" in the FMP query, and caused the 958 error during new record 
> creation..  I have no idea how 958 relates, but it was definitely the 
> culprit.
> 
> The question is, what techniques do you us to condition data,  a regexp? 
> and on every field?
> 
> Thx.
> 
> Jonathan
> 


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