[TYPO3] Using NDASH and MDASH in GIFBUILDER text

[Joerg Wagner]

Hi Joey,

> Did you check if it works for other HTML entities?
> text = XXX - & | YYY
> Should give you    XXX - & | YYY

nope! They do not. But I have to correct my statement a bit:
1.:
–  and   #x2013;  appear as plain text ("– #x2013;") - so they 
are automatically htmlSpecialChared without setting the htmlSpecialChar 
prop. So are & < > ä etc.
2.:
The latin1 char with charcode 150 appears as a placeholder rectangle instead 
as an ndash.
3.:
The entity – actually DOES render an ndash! It is the only one that 
does and the only way to enter that character.
4.
doNotStripHTML = 1
is obsolete in this case. It only works on HTML tags, not on entities.


Using a normal TEXT object, ALL four encoding versions result in a nice 
ndash as expected!


There is a way to partially solve at least point 1. of the list:
      text.HTMLparser = 1
      text.HTMLparser.htmlSpecialChars = -1
This renders < > & as the corresponding characters into the 
resulting image.
But ä – – are all still rendered as strings ("ä 
– –") into the image.

Well, using the encoding – there is at least a workaround to output an 
ndash (not very handy for editors though). But the whole attitude of 
GIFBUILDER seems rather erratic concerning special characters. The only 
stable way to get those chars rendered seems to be the &#DEZIMALUTF8; 
version of the char entities.

Below is a new TS block to reproduce all cases as GIFBUILDER image 
(including the HTMLparser filter for point 1) and as normal text output.
--
Jörg Wagner
DigiLog multimedia


 page.100 = IMAGE
 page.100.file = GIFBUILDER
 page.100.file {
    XY = 600,200
    backColor = #eeeeee
    10 = TEXT
    10{
      text = XXX - ä > < & | YYY  – – 
– ZZZ  — — — AAA
      text.HTMLparser = 1
      text.HTMLparser.htmlSpecialChars = -1
      fontSize = 16
      fontColor = #000000
      offset = 25,125
      niceText = 1
      fontFile = fileadmin/fonts/ARIALN.TTF
  }
}
 page.110 = TEXT
 page.110{
      value = XXX - ä > < & | YYY  – – 
– ZZZ  — — — AAA
}


"JoH" <info at cybercraft.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:mailman.1.1144064347.26963.typo3-english at lists.netfielders.de...
>>>> I just dropped onto a limitation in GIFBUILDER text:
>>>> There seems to be no way to render an ndash or mdash character.
>>>>
>>>> I tried all ways of encoding:
>>>>       text = XXX - &ndash; &#x2013; &#8211; YYY
>>>> and
>>>>       text = XXX - &mdash; &#x2014; &#8212; YYY
>>>>  but all I get is some placeholder character instead of the dash.
>>>>
>>>> Any idea how this can be done?
>>>
>>> Are you sure the font file "ARIALN.TTF" contains a character for
>>> ndash or mdash?
>>
>> yes, that was the first thing I checked. This is a standard WinXP
>> font file. It contains these dashes at the right UTF encoding
>> positions and they also work nicely if used as HTML entities in
>> normal body text with "font-face: Arial; font-weight: normal;
>> font-style: normal;" (which is ARIALN.TTF on WinXP).
>
> OK.
>
> Did you check if it works for other HTML entities?
> text = XXX - &amp; &#0124; YYY
> Should give you    XXX - & | YYY
>
> Joey
>
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