I'm doing an ajax callback that's supposed to update a div with new text: # action ... return 'jQuery("#my-target").html("%s");' % clean_str(make_contents(filename ))
def make_contents(filename): return open(filename, 'rb').read().decode('utf-8') def clean_str(text): return str(text).replace('"', '\\"').replace("’", "'")......and so on Problem is I've run into a funny string begin offending text 
 end offending text that chokes the jQuery somewhere inside of web2py.js and causes the text to not get displayed in the target div. Firebug complains: 1. Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token ILLEGAL web2py.js:21<http://127.0.0.1:8000/YAKiToMe/static/js/web2py.js> 1. jQuery.ajax.successweb2py.js:21<http://127.0.0.1:8000/YAKiToMe/static/js/web2py.js> 2. ojquery-1.7.2.min.js:3<http://127.0.0.1:8000/YAKiToMe/static/js/jquery/jquery-1.7.2.min.js> 3. p.fireWithjquery-1.7.2.min.js:3<http://127.0.0.1:8000/YAKiToMe/static/js/jquery/jquery-1.7.2.min.js> 4. wjquery-1.7.2.min.js:5<http://127.0.0.1:8000/YAKiToMe/static/js/jquery/jquery-1.7.2.min.js> 5. 2. d jquery-1.7.2.min.js:5 I suspect this is an encoding problem. I suspect the text unfolds to a quote that messes up the .html("%s") part of the jQuery. But this has me stumped. Any help is appreciated. Thanks. -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.