HTML codes / entities / charaters

i'm trying to get the CKeditor to never convert characters like " to & quot ; (note i've mashed that a little cos i'm expecting it to get converted) and instead convert them to & #xxx; etc etc....

bascially i only ever want it to use the & #xxxxx; version.

i came across this
http://docs.fckeditor.net/FCKeditor_2.x ... icEntities

but it doesn't seem to work in v3

anyone have any similar issues...?

does anyone have a definiative list of all of these and i'll write something to post process....
more interestingly does anyone know why things like & quot; exist?
(other than its very slightly easier to type ;-) )

phil

Sat, 09/19/2009 - 08:58

garry.yao

Joined: 03/01/2009

Posts: 170

Re: HTML codes / entities / charaters

You can force the numeric form output with editor config entry CKEDITOR.config.entities_processNumerical.

Mon, 09/21/2009 - 10:40

phil.fuse

Joined: 18/09/2009

Posts: 3

Re: HTML codes / entities / charaters

its not quite what i'm after - tho that will come in useful.

if i enter µ into the source mode and flick in and out i see the char rendered as "µ" but then i flick back to source and it has been changed to µ

i think i might have to write something to post process so that anything in
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/sgml/entities.html#h-24.2.1
is put back in &#xxxx; format

is this possible at all?
anyone any other ideas?

Mon, 09/21/2009 - 11:06

phil.fuse

Joined: 18/09/2009

Posts: 3

Re: HTML codes / entities / charaters

it seems i can set -
CKEDITOR.config.entities_additional = '#39,#8211,#171,#187';

to not replace certain chars.
i might try to hook into this instead and replace everything not [a-z0-9] for eg.
is it possible to hook into the JS for this?

Mon, 09/21/2009 - 21:01

amskevin

Joined: 21/09/2009

Posts: 1

Re: HTML codes / entities / charaters

I'm new to CKEditor and am also having issues with CKEditor also automatically escaping characters...

I'm also having issues with it automatically escaping characters.

I have a plug-in that is adding a custom IMG tag. It sends the user to a page that needs some variables to serve the image. For example /foo.cfm?Action=View&ID=17

Well, everytime, it changes it to: /foo.cfm?Action=View&ID=17

This makes my page think that the ID variable is actually amp;ID and it breaks my page. I've tried editing the source and removing the "amp;" portion, but as soon as I try to save or switch back out of source view, it changes it right back.

Any ideas?

Tue, 12/08/2009 - 12:57

tonyarnold

Joined: 08/12/2009

Posts: 1

Re: HTML codes / entities / charaters

garry.yao wrote:You can force the numeric form output with editor config entry CKEDITOR.config.entities_processNumerical.

This doesn't work the way I would expect. I should be able to choose to encode all entities as numeric, but there's some logic in the entities plugin that always inserts html entities for standard elements (rendering CKEditor useless for XML/XSL scenarios).

Where should I report this bug?