Special characters in textarea fields
767080Feb 21 2012 — edited Feb 27 2012Hi there,
We got an apex application that has a form where users can enter free text into a textarea field. It is a requirement for the textarea to accept macrons (ā, Ā, ē, Ē, etc).
Users can enter the macrons into the textarea field ok, and the page process saves the macrons characters escaped as ā, Ā, ē, Ē, etc which is ok. The problem is when the value of the database column is assigned back to the textarea after the user saves. The ampersand is escape and therefore the macros are display as "ā" instead of "ā". So:
User enter: ā
Database saves: ā
Textarea value is: ā
Textarea display: ā
Is there a way to control the escape of special characters for textarea fields in the same way as there is for display only fields?
Edited by: po on Feb 21, 2012 12:10 PM