[FX.php List] OT: extra spaces between words not showing up

[Joel Shapiro]

Hi Tim 'Webko'!

Nice to see you here!  You helped me a great deal with CDML issues  
years ago... probably on comp.databases.filemaker.

Thanks so much!

Best,
-Joel


On Sep 24, 2007, at 4:24 PM, Tim 'Webko' Booth wrote:

> At 09:09 AM 25/09/2007, you wrote:
>> Greetings everyone -
>>
>> I just noticed a problem that I've narrowed down to NOT being  
>> related to FileMaker / fx.php - but it is really causing problems  
>> with my project.
>>
>> If    I       type    something       like      this    in       
>> my  form
>> and pass it either directly to FileMaker or to a new page in a  
>> session, the extra spaces between the words are preserved  
>> correctly.  However, when it is displayed (either on the next page  
>> from a session or returned from a find) the extra spaces are  
>> removed. (leaving it to, for example, "If I type something like  
>> this in my form"...)
>>
>>
>> My hunch is that it has something to do with my encoding  (UTF-8)
>
> When displayed in HTML, extra whitespaces are not displayed - it's  
> in the spec. Multiple spaces, tabs, returns, new lines etc are all  
> shrunk down to one whitespace for display. As you note, they are  
> actually there, but no browser will show them in plain HTML.
>
> Try wrapping the returned values in <pre> tags - that should hold  
> the spaces for display.
>
> Or using a substitute to replace with the special non-breaking  
> space entity for display - &nbsp;
>
> Cheers
>
> Webko
>
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