How do I find smart quotes?

[Sean S - Perth, WA]

Hi all,

I'm wondering if there is a way to find (to strip or process) smart quotes
in text submitted via a form?

These don't work:

strOutput = Replace(strOutput, "“", "“") ' left smart quote char as
replace value
strOutput = Replace(strOutput, Chr(147), "“") ' my best guess at where the
left smart quote char is in the charset

I guess the real question is if I submit the page as Unicode is there a way
to process it as cp-1252?

--
Sean.

[Anthony Jones]

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Hi all,

I'm wondering if there is a way to find (to strip or process) smart quotes
in text submitted via a form?

These don't work:

strOutput = Replace(strOutput, """, """) ' left smart quote char as
replace value

The reason you can't create a string literal containing a smart quote
because it is treated as a double quote.

strOutput = Replace(strOutput, Chr(147), """) ' my best guess at where the
left smart quote char is in the charset

I guess the real question is if I submit the page as Unicode is there a

way

to process it as cp-1252?

All Strings in VBScript are unicode. Windows-1252 chars 147 and 148 in
unicode are 8220 and 8221.

--
Sean.

[Mark J. McGinty]

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<Sean S - Perth>; "WA" <Se**********@discussions.microsoft.comwrote in
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>Hi all,

I'm wondering if there is a way to find (to strip or process) smart
quotes
in text submitted via a form?

These don't work:

strOutput = Replace(strOutput, """, """) ' left smart quote char as
replace value

The reason you can't create a string literal containing a smart quote
because it is treated as a double quote.

>strOutput = Replace(strOutput, Chr(147), """) ' my best guess at where
the
left smart quote char is in the charset

I guess the real question is if I submit the page as Unicode is there a

way

>to process it as cp-1252?

All Strings in VBScript are unicode. Windows-1252 chars 147 and 148 in
unicode are 8220 and 8221.

All strings in VBS may be Unicode, but ASP will not process source files
saved as Unicode; therefore, by definition, a conversion from ANSI to
Unicode must be performed on all string literals...

Does anyone else wonder how an environment that claims Unicode as its native
string type, could be unable to handle Unicode source?
-Mark

>--
Sean.

[Anthony Jones]

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<Sean S - Perth>; "WA" <Se**********@discussions.microsoft.comwrote in
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Hi all,

I'm wondering if there is a way to find (to strip or process) smart
quotes
in text submitted via a form?

These don't work:

strOutput = Replace(strOutput, """, """) ' left smart quote char as
replace value

The reason you can't create a string literal containing a smart quote
because it is treated as a double quote.

strOutput = Replace(strOutput, Chr(147), """) ' my best guess at where
the
left smart quote char is in the charset

I guess the real question is if I submit the page as Unicode is there a

way

to process it as cp-1252?

All Strings in VBScript are unicode. Windows-1252 chars 147 and 148 in
unicode are 8220 and 8221.

All strings in VBS may be Unicode, but ASP will not process source files
saved as Unicode; therefore, by definition, a conversion from ANSI to
Unicode must be performed on all string literals...

But UTF-8 works fine ;)

Does anyone else wonder how an environment that claims Unicode as its

native

string type, could be unable to handle Unicode source?

Because:-

1) UTF-8 works fine so there is no pressing need to support 2 byte unicode
characters.
2) The parser goes way way back and is based on pure ASCII single byte
characters forming the keywords for the tokens it creates.

Anthony.

>
-Mark

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Sean.