Posted by NikitaTheSpider on 06/14/06 23:05

ron.tornambe@bunkerhill.com wrote:
> Thanks for the reply Philip.
>
> The data is coming from a MS-SQL database with mixed English/Western
> Euorpean character data in some fields. The html is generated by
> Crystal Reports that references CSS styles and an html wrapper I have
> supplied. The reason for including the width property in the CSS style
> is to work-around a quirk that prevents text-alignment from working
> unless the width pproperty is supplied. Crystal is breaking the field
> (ProductName, ex. Tunnbröd) into multiple <td>...<td> (one for each
> special character) resulting in the erroneous spacing.
>
> Here's a link to the html file:
> http://www.bunkerhill.com/dev/ViewReport_Invoice.html
>
> If you look under the Product Name: column, you'll see the problem. The
> CSS style is cssStlye0036. You can search for ProductName or ö to see
> the code.

Ron,
There's two immediate problems here. The first is that you're
delivering UTF-8 data but labeling it as ISO-8859-1 in a META tag. The
characters don't display correctly at all for me (using Firefox) unless
I force the encoding to UTF-8.

The second problem is that cssStyle0036 specifies "WIDTH: 2.0521in" and
that style is applied to the o-with-umlaut that's in tunbrod. That
forces that single character to be 2 inches wide, although who knows
what an "inch" means on a computer screen. &diety; knows what Crystal
Reports thinks it is doing here. Good luck hammering it into behaving
nicely.

Bye

--
Philip
http://NikitaTheSpider.com/
Bulk HTML validation, link checking and more


> Philip wrote:
> > In article <1150302789.924823.203660@y43g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>,
> > "ron.tornambe@bunkerhill.com" <ron.tornambe@bunkerhill.com> wrote:
> >
> > > When specifying a width property within a CSS style, data that contains
> > > special characters (ex. umlauts) causes the data to be separated by
> > > spaces . When I remove the width property, the data is presented
> > > correctly.
> > >
> > > Interestingly, I cut and pasted the following word (which was one
> > > continous word - Tunnbröd ) into this message and the problem arose:
> > > Tunnbr ö d
> > >
> > > How do I remove the white-space?
> >
> > Ron,
> > Without a real example, I can only guess, but this smells like an
> > encoding problem. Wild guess -- are you using Windows notepad and saving
> > as "Unicode"?
> >
> > Do post an example as Els recommended.
> >
> > --
> > Philip
> > http://NikitaTheSpider.com/
> > Bulk HTML validation, link checking and more

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