[Laszlo-user] UTF-8 character range

[P T Withington]

I'm not a unicode expert but I thought the 'printable characters' in  
unicode are sparse -- that there is no range to do what you want.

I wonder why the right thing isn't to fix the server?

On Oct 24, 2007, at 18:16, Elliot Winard <ewinard at laszlosystems.com>  
wrote:

> I meant that I'd used "[&#32;-&#400;]" as the pattern.
> -e
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at  5:59 PM, Elliot Winard wrote:
>
>> I'm working on a bug where non-printable characters (specifically  
>> the BEL character) sent by our Laszlo app are causing the server to  
>> choke.
>>
>> I'd like to restrict the character input to printable characters.  
>> Right now I'm using the pattern "[&$32;-&#400;]*" on inputtext  
>> fields but I think this will disallow some non-western text.
>> Is there a better range to include in the pattern that will work  
>> for all printable UTF-8 characters?
>>
>> I'm just interested how to catch this in the LZX world.  I know  
>> that the behavior of the app will depend on character ranges the  
>> back-end supports.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> -e