WebParser returns HTML value.

[kyriakos876]

Hello,
I'm parsing a URL and I get &#8211 instead of - but the text shows up correctly.
The skin is currently encoded in UCS-2 LE BOM. I tried UTF-8 but it didn't do much...
Any ideas? (Also there's Greek text being parsed, which means special characters, if that matters. Text shows up correctly though)

-Thanks in advance.

[jsmorley]

Hello,
I'm parsing a URL and I get &#8211 instead of - but the text shows up correctly.
The skin is currently encoded in UCS-2 LE BOM. I tried UTF-8 but it didn't do much...
Any ideas? (Also there's Greek text being parsed, which means special characters, if that matters. Text shows up correctly though)

-Thanks in advance.

This is not about encoding in the skin.

That HTML Character Reference is malformed. It should be –, and then you use https://docs.rainmeter.net/manual/measures/webparser/#DecodeCharacterReference on the child measure returning it. Sure you aren't missing the ; on the code when you are parsing it?

[kyriakos876]

This is not about encoding in the skin.

That HTML Character Reference is malformed. It should be –, and then you use https://docs.rainmeter.net/manual/measures/webparser/#DecodeCharacterReference on the child measure returning it. Sure you aren't missing the ; on the code when you are parsing it?

Yea sorry, I forgot the ;.
I tried DecodeCharacterReference=2 in my child measure and it worked. One question I have though is:
Do I need to decode both, numeric character references and character entity references?
Why do DecodeCharacterReference=2 and DecodeCharacterReference=3 exist? Couldn't it be DecodeCharacterReference=1? Is it doing more work to have it =1 so we prefer to specify the decoding or something?

[jsmorley]

Yea sorry, I forgot the ;.
I tried DecodeCharacterReference=2 in my child measure and it worked. One question I have though is:
Do I need to decode both, numeric character references and character entity references?
Why do DecodeCharacterReference=2 and DecodeCharacterReference=3 exist? Couldn't it be DecodeCharacterReference=1? Is it doing more work to have it =1 so we prefer to specify the decoding or something?

I just always use DecodeCharacterReference=1, no more work is involved. The others are there just for maximum flexibility.

[kyriakos876]

I just always use DecodeCharacterReference=1, no more work is involved. The others are there just for maximum flexibility.

Roger that