[thelist] displaying character entities in textareas

Kae Verens kverens at contactjuggling.org
Wed Nov 12 03:52:56 CST 2003


Jason Handby wrote:

>>I don't have a solution to your problem, but a suggestion... Instead of
>>using a text filter to change *foo* into <strong>foo</strong> have you
>>considered using Textile, the 'humane web text generator'?
>>
>>   <http://textism.com/tools/textile/>
>>
>>There are versions written in PHP, Perl, Python, and even ASP... I found
>>it very easy to use the Perl version written by Brad Choate into a
>>simple CMS I wrote...
>>    
>>

The textism one is similar to how I was handling formats previously, but 
that htmlarea one is bloody fantastic! I hope the author accepts 
patches, though, as the HTML produced is archaic.

Thanks everyone,
Kae



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