Hi Anthony --
The problem is that I don't want "LT" but rather "LE", i.e. "less than or
equal to."
As far as my table comment, I meant that when I used the SQL table and its
Fields to create an SQLTABLE, the labels "just worked" and produced a
column header with the desired symbol instead of printing "≤" in the
column heading. So SQLTABLE behavior differed from SQLFORM in this manner.
I have found a workaround, finally, which lets me have symbols in both
forms and tables:
elapsed_time_field("lcm_gt",label=CAT(T("LCM"),XML(" >"))),
elapsed_time_field("lcm_le",label=CAT(T("LCM"),XML(" ≤"))),
elapsed_time_field("scm_gt",label=CAT(T("SCM"),XML(" >"))),
elapsed_time_field("scm_le",label=CAT(T("SCM"),XML(" ≤"))),
elapsed_time_field("scy_gt",label=CAT(T("SCY"),XML(" >"))),
elapsed_time_field("scy_le",label=CAT(T("SCY"),XML(" ≤"))),
I first tried the obvious, letting T() handle the substitution but again,
that doesn't work. The &xx; character escapes get printed literally in the
form label instead of creating the symbol I intended. So I got around the
problem with CAT(). Still, an awful amount of work and hassle to
reverse-engineer and make a work around for something that just should have
worked.
I'm not sure why &xx; is "sanitized" to begin with. It seems like an
extreme form of sanitizing, to eliminate any and all special characters
from form labels.
-- Joe
On Wednesday, July 26, 2017 at 5:16:55 PM UTC-7, Anthony wrote:
>
> On Wednesday, July 26, 2017 at 7:43:14 PM UTC-4, Joe Barnhart wrote:
>>
>> It's even worse than I imagined.
>>
>> Leaving off the T() operation, I find that my field labeled "LCM >" is
>> actually sanitized at some point into:
>>
>> <label class="control-label col-sm-5" for="event_join_lcm_gt"
>> id="event_join_lcm_gt__label">LCM >: </label>
>>
>> Yes, something in the process has *recognized* the character ">" and
>> changed it to ">" But the field "LCM ≤" was sanitized into:
>>
>> <label class="control-label col-sm-5" for="event_join_lcm_le"
>> id="event_join_lcm_le__label">LCM &le;: </label>
>>
>> In this case, not only was the ≤ *not recognized* by the sanitizer,
>> it actually DE-SANITZED it by removing the ampersand and sanitizing it
>> separately.
>>
>
> Both of the above are encoded as expected -- the ">" character is
> converted to ">", and the "&" character in "<" is converted to
> "&". This is consistent and expected behavior. If you want to end up
> with "<", then why not just start with "<"?
>
> What is your ultimate goal? Do you not want the final HTML to include the
> ">" and "<" HTML entities so they display as ">" and "<" on the page?
>
> Also, what do you mean by, "If I use the Field titles directly in a table
> on my own, they work as expected?" In each case, what do you want to
> display on the page, and what are you expecting in the raw HTML?
>
> Anthony
>
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