Problems with the half symbol

[Astra]

Hi All

This is really bizarre prob that I don't know how I'm going to get round it.

In essence I have created a site that allows the user to select their
preferred shoe size, this then gets added to a simple cart and then they
submit the cart order.

The problem is that even though I'm being a good lad and using ½ to
display the half sizes in the drop-down selector, eg Size 3, Size 3½,
Size 4, Size 4½, etc when the data is posted into my Access DB, the
DB **seems** to be converting it into the actual half symbol and storing it
like this.

When the cart contents are retrieved it looks OK in the browser, for some
reason the symbol still looks OK even though the View Source shows it is the
actual half symbol rather than the HTML code, but the problem is that this
half symbol turns into a blob when it gets emailed.

My first plan was to do a Replace function for all instances of ½ to
'.5', but the Replace function didn't pick any of them up. So I tried the
same proc with a copy and paste of the half symbol from View Source and then
½ but none of these got the Replace to actually do the replace.

Can anybody assist me with this?

Thanks Robbie

[Steven Burn]

<%
Dim sTemp
sTemp = "I want &frac12; of the &frac14; he's getting"
Response.Write Server.HTMLEncode(Replace(sTemp, "&frac12;", "//12//"))
%>

--
Regards

Steven Burn
Ur I.T. Mate Group
www.it-mate.co.uk

Keeping it FREE!

"Astra" <in**@noemail.com> wrote in message news:#P**************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...

Hi All

This is really bizarre prob that I don't know how I'm going to get round it.

In essence I have created a site that allows the user to select their
preferred shoe size, this then gets added to a simple cart and then they
submit the cart order.

The problem is that even though I'm being a good lad and using &frac12; to
display the half sizes in the drop-down selector, eg Size 3, Size 3&frac12;,
Size 4, Size 4&frac12;, etc when the data is posted into my Access DB, the
DB **seems** to be converting it into the actual half symbol and storing it
like this.

When the cart contents are retrieved it looks OK in the browser, for some
reason the symbol still looks OK even though the View Source shows it is the
actual half symbol rather than the HTML code, but the problem is that this
half symbol turns into a blob when it gets emailed.

My first plan was to do a Replace function for all instances of &frac12; to
'.5', but the Replace function didn't pick any of them up. So I tried the
same proc with a copy and paste of the half symbol from View Source and then
½ but none of these got the Replace to actually do the replace.

Can anybody assist me with this?

Thanks Robbie

[Astra]

Genius!!!
"Steven Burn" <so*******@in-time.invalid> wrote in message
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<%
Dim sTemp
sTemp = "I want &frac12; of the &frac14; he's getting"
Response.Write Server.HTMLEncode(Replace(sTemp, "&frac12;", "//12//"))
%>

--
Regards

Steven Burn
Ur I.T. Mate Group
www.it-mate.co.uk

Keeping it FREE!

"Astra" <in**@noemail.com> wrote in message
news:#P**************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...

Hi All

This is really bizarre prob that I don't know how I'm going to get round
it.

In essence I have created a site that allows the user to select their
preferred shoe size, this then gets added to a simple cart and then they
submit the cart order.

The problem is that even though I'm being a good lad and using &frac12; to
display the half sizes in the drop-down selector, eg Size 3, Size
3&frac12;,
Size 4, Size 4&frac12;, etc when the data is posted into my Access DB, the
DB **seems** to be converting it into the actual half symbol and storing
it
like this.

When the cart contents are retrieved it looks OK in the browser, for some
reason the symbol still looks OK even though the View Source shows it is
the
actual half symbol rather than the HTML code, but the problem is that this
half symbol turns into a blob when it gets emailed.

My first plan was to do a Replace function for all instances of &frac12;
to
'.5', but the Replace function didn't pick any of them up. So I tried the
same proc with a copy and paste of the half symbol from View Source and
then
½ but none of these got the Replace to actually do the replace.

Can anybody assist me with this?

Thanks Robbie