Writing Character Entities and Code in Posts

lorelle · Member · Jan 19, 2007 at 1:46 am
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Until recently, I haven’t had a problem putting HTML character entities and codes into my WordPress.com blog. To make the “less than” arrow, I would use <. For the typical symbols and characters, these work great.

However, I’m working on an article and I need to feature some character codes. For example, to create a semi-colon with an HTML character entity, you would use & #59;.

To write this on my WordPress.com post, I would write &amp;#59;. However, it gets filtered out on Save and Continue Editing to & #59; which the browser then converts to ; . So my example for creating a character entity for the semi-colon becomes “; – ;”. Not helpful.

How do I write examples of less common character entities without doing hokey things like putting a space between the ampersand and the rest of the code?

Thanks.
engtech · Member · Jan 19, 2007 at 2:19 am
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Don’t try and use a TEXTAREA — that will screw up the editor and cause lockups when trying to edit posts.

I always have trouble with this as well, so I don’t know what to tell you :(
lorelle · Member · Jan 19, 2007 at 7:28 am
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That method never occurred to me. I’ve done this on full version WordPress blogs and haven’t had a problem, so I’m wondering what it is that allows me to make the < and not the &34; character code in WordPress.com. Very frustrating.
drmike · Member · Jan 19, 2007 at 5:17 pm
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If Lorelle can’t figure it out…. :)

I know we have an issue with text being reconverted when using the ‘Save and continue editing’ save that you mention. Like it’s being passed through the conversion routeins again and again. Only thing I can suggest is not doing that and writing your post ahead of time in another editor.

Pain in the butt if you ask me.
engtech · Member · Jan 19, 2007 at 6:13 pm
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Useful utility for converting mark-up to safe-to-display HTML:
http://www.destraynor.com/c2h.html

I don’t think it fixes this problem, though.
drmike · Member · Jan 19, 2007 at 6:15 pm
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Ooh, didn’t know about that one. The one that I use misses a lot of them.

Thanks,
-drmike
devblog · Member · Jan 19, 2007 at 11:34 pm
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lorelle, you want something like this?
lorelle · Member · Jan 20, 2007 at 6:41 am
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devblog: EXACTLY.

How did you get those to appear as code?

Hand over the secret NOW! ;-)
raincoaster · Member · Jan 20, 2007 at 7:16 am
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Say Please!
devblog · Member · Jan 20, 2007 at 10:59 am
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Well, you just need to write the ASCII for the number sign too.

Check my example to see the code. I tried to put it here but it didn’t work…

Hope this helps.

PS. After you see this, can you please lemme know so I can delete the test page? Thanks.
drmike · Member · Jan 20, 2007 at 4:22 pm
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Well, you just need to write the ASCII for the number sign too.

I thought that that was what Lorelle was doing up above?
devblog · Member · Jan 20, 2007 at 4:43 pm
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Nope, she was only writing the ampersand HTML code.
lorelle · Member · Jan 20, 2007 at 5:47 pm
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Genius! Thanks. I forgot that all the codes had to be converted. I hadn’t taken it that far this time. You are a star.

Oh, and you can delete the test page. :D
devblog · Member · Jan 20, 2007 at 7:23 pm
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Glad to be of assistance
drmike · Member · Jan 21, 2007 at 12:58 am
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Just remembered that you can try using the method of encoding to hid your email address as well if you want to try it. :)
sunburntkamel · Member · Jan 21, 2007 at 2:49 pm
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very nice, devblog. i wish i’d seen this 2 days ago

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