Re: [gtoad-devel] German characters in gpx output

[Russell T. <mtn...@gm...>]

On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 08:03:01 -0500, Thomas Stromberg
<th...@st...> wrote:
> 
> I don't know what query you were trying to run, but I think changing
> this line in geocache/search.rb from:
> 
>                      name = CGI.unescapeHTML(name);
> to:
>                      name.gsub!("&quot;", "\"");
> 
> Should fix the problem. Let me know if it does, and I'll be sure to get
> this into 3.7.6.
> 

The replacement line was not working with double quotes so I tried
single quotes.  Subbing the double quote character caused other issues
so I just dropped the quote all together.

     name.gsub!('&quot;', '');

Still having trouble with the other &#xxxx; characters as shown below.
 The first is a single quote, the second is a dash.

GPX Description field:
Scott&#8217;s Mill Puzzle &#8211; Apex Triple Threat by GeoCyclist
(adopted by horsegeeks), Unknown Cache (3.0/1.5)

I'm now trying to find out where the &#xxxx characters are first translated.

-R

Russell Teague
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