[FX.php List] Bad apostrophe character confounds FMP

Mon Dec 10 09:02:35 MST 2007

Yes, he's absolutely right; I forgot about that, but that was what  
finally fixed all my problems.

I use it for everything I write now...

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On Dec 10, 2007, at 12:57 AM, Troy Meyers wrote:

> Jonathan,
>
> There are probably lots of causes, but every time I've seen this  
> it's because the php page file didn't have this in the head:
>
> <head>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
> <title>...
>
> ...or if it did have that, it wasn't saved actually using the UTF-8  
> encoding.
>
> For FX PHP use, it's GOT to be UTF-8.
>
> -Troy
>
>> 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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