Forums / General / How to put an "em dash" into the text
Zoltan Szabo
Wednesday 15 September 2004 11:21:52 pm
Can you help me how to insert a "long - " sign (em dash, —) into a text area?
I tried the following way: I used -- signs, and in the database dump I replaced all " -- " partsh into — sequences.It still does not work: I can see only these numbers.
Is it possible to make a "custom tag" or some other "escape" way for this?
Bård Farstad
Thursday 16 September 2004 12:03:29 am
You can make custom tag for this. You find information about how to do that here:http://www.ez.no/ez_publish/documentation/customization/components/datatypes/ezxmltext/custom_tags
You need to use the HTML entity to display the em dash if you are not using any of the following codepages: adobe-standard-encoding cp874 hp-roman8 macintosh next windows-1250 windows-1251 windows-1252 windows-1253 windows-1254 windows-1255 windows-1256 windows-1257windows-1258
If you use any of those codepages you can also just use the character directly.
--bård
Documentation: http://ez.no/doc
Thursday 16 September 2004 12:49:09 am
Thank you. I use ISO8859-2, so none of the ones in the above list.I found a not-very-nice solution, using
before it <custom name='emdash'></custom> after it
by butting into emdash.tpl a — sign.
Is it possible to solve it by a more simple way? I think something in content.ini like
TagList[literal]=<pre>;</pre>;htmlspecialchars
Unfortunately this way there are 3 ; signs in this row...
TagList[emdash]=—;;
So it does not work.
I would like to solve it by using a simple
<emdash>
sign in the input text. Any ideas?
Friday 17 September 2004 12:29:13 am
Could you please, Bård, insert an "em dash" into this text area - as an example - for me?
Friday 17 September 2004 12:36:59 am
Zoltan, that is not possible to do. We do not allow special characters to be inserted into the forum and the characterset here on ez.no is latin1--which does not support em dash.