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Text.EncodeToHTML

Encodes text as html.

(old name: String.EncodeToHTML)

Parameters

Parameter	Description	Example	Flags
text	The text you want to encode.	"Grüße"
mode	Default 0 for using named entities. Pass 1 for decimal and 2 for hex encoded numbers instead. Add 8 to encode all characters (new in plugin version 8.4)	0	Optional

Result

The encoded text.

Description

Examples

Encode text as html

MBS( "Text.EncodeToHTML"; "Grüße" )

Example result: "Grüße"

Encode smileys:

MBS("Text.EncodeToHTML"; "😀😁😂😃")

Example result: "😀😁😂😃"

Encode ä three ways:

MBS( "Text.EncodeToHTML"; "ä"; 0) & ¶ &
MBS( "Text.EncodeToHTML"; "ä"; 1) & ¶ &
MBS( "Text.EncodeToHTML"; "ä"; 2)

Encode normal and all with decimal or hexadecimal:

MBS("Text.EncodeToHTML"; "Hello World ä"; 0) & ¶ &
MBS("Text.EncodeToHTML"; "Hello World ä"; 8) & ¶ &
MBS("Text.EncodeToHTML"; "Hello World ä"; 8+2)

Example result:
"Hello World ä
Hello World ä
Hello World ä"

See also

• SendMail.SetHTMLText
• Text.DecodeFromHTML
• Text.EncodeToBytes
• Text.EncodeToHex
• Text.EncodeToURL
• Text.EncodeToXML
• Text.ReplaceNewline
• Text.TextToHTML

Example Databases

• CURL/Email/Batch Emailer
• CURL/Email/Build and send HTML Email with inline graphic
• CURL/Email/IMAP Email
• Text functions/HTML Conversion with UTF32
• WebViewer/Text To WebViewer

Blog Entries

• MBS FileMaker Plugin, version 10.3pr9
• Text to Webviewer Script for FileMaker
• Smileys and UTF32
• MBS FileMaker Plugin, version 8.4pr8
• MBS FileMaker Plugin, version 7.2pr6
• MBS FileMaker Plugin, version 5.1pr5
• MBS FileMaker Plugin, version 5.0pr7

Release notes

• Version 10.3
  • Fixed Text.EncodeToHTML to handle single apostrophes correctly.
• Version 8.4
  • Added new mode to Text.EncodeToHTML to encode all characters.
• Version 7.2
  • Added more parameter for Text.EncodeToHTML to decide how to encode entities.
  • Fixed problem in Text.EncodeToHTML where it did not ignore low ascii characters.

Created 18th August 2014, last changed 13th September 2018

Text.EncodeToBytes   -   Text.EncodeToHex

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