I think we need to see the source code

On Monday, 23 September 2013 19:09:32 UTC-5, David Austin wrote:
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> On Tuesday, September 24, 2013 4:46:13 AM UTC+10, Massimo Di Pierro wrote:
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>> What is the code that generates this:
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>> <FONT FACE="Arial, serif">
>>
>> certainly there is no font tag anywhere in web2py. It was deprecated in 
>> HTML years ago.
>>
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>
> Hi Massimo,
>
> I believe it comes from Microsoft Word.  But the important thing is that
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> <FONT FACE="Arial, serif">...
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> is the value for the text field.  And that value also contains UTF-8 
> characters.
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> David
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>> On Monday, 23 September 2013 09:00:28 UTC-5, David Austin wrote:
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>>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I'm seeing a number of error tickets generated in the guts of web2py 
>>> stemming from a form.accepts() call.
>>>
>>>
>>>      File "xxxx/web2py/gluon/html.py", line 856, in _traverse
>>>
>>>     self._postprocessing()
>>>   File "xxxxx/web2py/gluon/html.py", line 1774, in _postprocessing
>>>     _value = str(self['_value'])
>>> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2026' in 
>>> position 55: ordinal not in range(128)
>>>
>>>
>>> The character in question appears to be a UTF-8 ellipsis (...).
>>>
>>> I thought that this may have been a browser issue - but I think now it's 
>>> just a web2py problem with text INPUTs containing
>>> "interesting" characters - even in the values.  The generated HTML looks 
>>> like:
>>>
>>> <input id="word_name" type="text" value="<FONT FACE="Arial, 
>>> serif"><FONT SIZE=2>as/so far as … is/are concerned</font></font>" name
>>> ="name">
>>>
>>> which seems to have two issues - the double quotes in the value are not 
>>> escaped and the ellipsis (probably
>>> ok HTML) is then going to generate the ticket I'm seeing at 
>>> str(self['_value']).
>>>
>>> David
>>>
>>>

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