I have a problem to use hyper links that contains special characters.
I have a link to a file that has special Unicode characters in its name. I
am using xalan to transform
input XML to Html. I noticed that xalan automatically converts special
characters.
for example I have this character u\05E9 (Unicode)
1. in the title attribute of the <a> it is converted by xalan to ש.
2. in the href attribute it is being converted to %D7%A9.
when I open the html file via apache web-server I see the title as should be
but when I click on the
link it can't find the file.
I understand that html 4 requires special character in the URI to be
converted to UTF-8.
so the string coming from the xml is (I replaced the special characters with
their Unicode values):
file://yossim/shr/[u\005E9][u\005DC][u\005d5][u\005dd].txt
and the translated html is :
<a href="file://yossim/shr/%D7%A9%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%9D.txt"
title="שלום.txt">שלום.txt</a>
what is the problem, why IE5 can't open the file???
Thank you
Vic
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