What: char2ent.tcl
 Where: http://braziliantranslation.net/downloads/char2ent.tcl
 Description: Read an HTML or XML file containing literal special characters,
        then replace specials with appropriate SGML entities and output.
        Currently at version 0.0 .
 Updated: 11/2004

Contact: [LES]

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[LES] on November 18, 2004: Get the code here: [http://braziliantranslation.net/downloads/char2ent.tcl]

The code was posted here entirely at first, but I never succeeded in having all characters displayed correctly. Today (May 2007), I saw that many other characters were displayed incorrectly: a whole series of them displayed as question marks. I spent almost half an hour trying to correct it, but I couldn't make it work. Wikit keeps complaining about some "bogus" character and blames my browser (Firefox). Konqueror didn't work either. I give up. Just download the thing and move on.

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[RS] Note that [read] includes the trailing newline; to write such a file-string out it is best to use ''[puts] -nonewline'' so you don't get an extra one. Also, [string map] is happy with long maps, so you can avoid the [for] loop by just coding
 set XMLmap {& & < < > > ...}
 set HTMLmap {Ä Ä ...}
 ...
 set myMap $XMLmap
 ...
 set myText [string map $myMap $mytext]



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[Category Application] -
[Category Characters] -
[Category Dev. Tools] -
[Category XML]