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MEKAEEL
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Oct 25, 2006, 6:19 PM

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placeholder encoding? Can't Post
Hey guys Smile

I used a the placeholder for my header links, but the text was all in Arabic and when I published the pages they appeared all messed up

like this: u0639%u0646 %u0627%u0644%u0645%u0648%u0642%u0639

This is not a problem of char-set, char-set problem do not appear like this.

Any suggestions?


Dave
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Oct 25, 2006, 10:21 PM

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Re: [MEKAEEL] placeholder encoding? [In reply to] Can't Post
A few google searches seems to indicate it's a non-standard form of unicode url encoding supporting by IE only. Here's some links on that:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent-encoding#Non-standard_implementations

http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/gerv/archives/005539.html

http://www.technicalinfo.net/papers/URLEmbeddedAttacks.html (search for %u in page)

Maybe IE is submitting the content like that when you save it? Are you using IE? Does is happen when you save the placeholder values with Firefox? There must be a way to disable it in IE.

Dave Edis - Senior Developer
interactivetools.com
 


MEKAEEL
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Oct 25, 2006, 11:44 PM

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Re: [Dave] placeholder encoding? [In reply to] Can't Post
indeed I'm using IE. and yes it happens only when I save it. Just now I tried saving it in FireFox as you suggested but it turned out the same result.

I tried writing the Arabic letters in the "ا" form and it worked for now.

I wouldn't mind fixing the problem completely though, it will make things easier for me.

best regards,
mekaeel


(This post was edited by MEKAEEL on Oct 25, 2006, 11:45 PM)