Jens
Mon Apr 18 06:23:24 CDT 2005
Follow this Form tutorial.
http://www.webreference.com/html/tutorial13/1.html
It is rather long but should explain just about all worth knowing about
forms.
Regards Jens Peter Karlsen. Microsoft MVP - Frontpage.
shahn wrote:
> Thank you very much indeed. I did consider POST and GET with the FORM, but
> with the same results :-(
> In OPTIONS FOR CUSTOMS FORMS HANDLER dialog box, there is space for
> "Encoding type:" It remains blank by default. Can I specify any specific
> encoding here? If yes, what will be the syntax? Perhaps by force-specifying
> this encoding will solve the problem.
> It is to be remembered that without ANY specific workarounds, my home laptop
> has no such problem. Maybe Windows installation types are different? I wonder.
>
> "Jens Peter Karlsen[FP MVP]" wrote:
>
>
>>The parameters are translated to html entities because these arabic
>>signs can't be represented as is in an url.
>>When you retrieve the parameters you must take this into account and
>>translate the entities back to the actual arabic signs.
>>Have you considered using POST instead of GET? Of course if it doesn't
>>come from a form you can't do this.
>>
>>Regards Jens Peter Karlsen. Microsoft MVP - Frontpage.
>>
>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: shahn [mailto:shahn@discussions.microsoft.com]
>>>Posted At: 17. april 2005 08:50
>>>Posted To: microsoft.public.frontpage.programming
>>>Conversation: Arabic Lanaguage support
>>>Subject: Re: Arabic Lanaguage support
>>>
>>>
>>>Thanx for the quick response. I think I'll rephrase my
>>>question. The page IS an ASP page. The hyperlink has
>>>parameter which is in Arabic language. The database is mixed
>>>- English and Arabic. The English parameters have no problem
>>>in retrieving records from the database. It is only the
>>>Arabic characters that show either '????' or something like
>>>'%1%2%3+' etc and retrieve no records although these
>>>parameters do come from the same database records. I have
>>>tried different encoding settings. Weird thing is it is
>>>working fine at my home laptop :-)
>>>
>>>"Jens Peter Karlsen[FP MVP]" wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>A hyperlink can not retrieve data from a database. You need
>>>
>>>to use a
>>>
>>>>serverside language such as ASP to do that.
>>>>
>>>>Regards Jens Peter Karlsen. Microsoft MVP - Frontpage.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>>From: shahn [mailto:shahn@discussions.microsoft.com]
>>>>>Posted At: 16. april 2005 12:58
>>>>>Posted To: microsoft.public.frontpage.programming
>>>>>Conversation: Arabic Lanaguage support
>>>>>Subject: Arabic Lanaguage support
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Arabic language Hyperlinks are not working for retrieving
>>>
>>>data from
>>>
>>>>>MS Access database having data in Arabic. Language
>>>
>>>setting has been
>>>
>>>>>modified to support the language. Although the page shows arabic
>>>>>words, the link bar shows something like %3%2%1 etc.
>>>>>Please help
>>>>>--
>>>>>shahn
>>>>>
>>>>