escaping

I have a link looking like this (it's a bit ugly because it is URL ) <a href="/items?fc%5B%5D=12345&fc%5B%5D=56789&utf8=%E2%9C%93">foo</a> To be a bit clear, it is URL encoded and translates to <a href="/items?fc[]=12345&fc[]=56789&utf8=✓">foo</a> When the form is submitted, the destination URL looks different in different browsers: In Firefox, it looks like desired: http://mydomain/items?fc[]=12345&fc[]=56789&utf8=✓ In Chrome, the square brackets are shown URL-encoded, (which gives very ugly and non-professional looking addresses when using many of them). http://mydomain/items?fc%5B%5D=12345

In html does the text inside the img tag's alt attribute require encoding/escaping? Non encoded example: <img src="myimg.png" alt="image description" /> Encoded example: <img src="myimg.png" alt="image%20description" /> Josh Stodola No, it does not need to be encoded like a URI. However, HTML characters must be encoded, like this... <img src="myimg.png" alt="Me & my image" /> They do not require URL encoding, but they do require, as all XHTML attributes do, XHTML entity encoding. Incorrect: <img src="foo.gif" alt="Ben & Jerry's" /> Correct: <img src="foo.gif" alt="Ben & Jerry's" /> You would

We store a bunch of weird document names on our web server (people upload them) that have various characters like spaces, ampersands, etc. When we generate links to these documents, we need to escape them so the server can look up the file by its raw name in the database. However, none of the built in .NET escape functions will work correctly in all cases. Take the document Hello#There.docx : UrlEncode will handle this correctly: HttpUtility.UrlEncode("Hello#There"); "Hello%23There" However, UrlEncode will not handle Hello There.docx correctly: HttpUtility.UrlEncode("Hello There.docx"); "Hello

Very simple question (surprisingly I can't find a similar question anywhere): how do I escape form data in VB.net? I have various lines like this: Dim query As String = "exec sp_Message_insert @clientid='" + pClientId + "', @message='" + pMessage + "', @takenby='" + pUserId + "', @recipients='" + pRecipients + "'" If I use an apostrophe in the message then of course this screws up the query. I've looked through the intellisense functions on the string but don't see anything appropriate... What exactly do you mean by escaping? VB.NET doesn't have 'escaping' in the same way that c-style

I've been going at this problem for a solid couple hours now and having zero luck. No clue how this is even possible; I'll try to summarize. I'm using TinyMCE to insert new content to a DB, that content is being sent back as an AJAX response after it is inserted into the DB and then shown on the page, replacing some old content. All of that isn't really relevant (as far as I can tell) to the problem, but it serves as a background to the problem. Anyhow, the response text has '\n' appropriately wherever the content had line breaks. I can't seem to remove those damn '\n' for the life of me. I've

To pass a path with spaces to .NET console application you should escape it. Probably not escape but surround with double quotes: myapp.exe --path C:\Program Files\MyApp` becomes new string[] { "--path", "C:\Program", "Files\MyApp" } but myapp.exe --path "C:\Program Files\MyApp" becomes new string[] { "--path", "C:\Program Files\MyApp" } and it works fine and you can parse that easily. I want to extend the set of parameters given with an addition one and start a new process with the resulting set of parameters: new ProcessStartInfo( Assembly.GetEntryAssembly().Location, String.Join(" ",

How would I escape a whole line in YAML? I want to have json='{"title": "travis_saulshanabrook_site","key": "'$(cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub)'"}' in a list, but I can't get it to parse into a string. I can put single quotes around the whole line, but then I would have to escape every single quote in my string, making it very hard to read. The string will be run as a bash command in Travis CI The most elegant solution is to use the literal style | indicator, with the - modifier to strip the final newline. That way there are no extra quotes necessary. If this scalar happens to be the only thing in a

In Python one can write r"a\nb" in order to prevent the \n from being interpreted as an escape sequence for newline. Is there something similar in Julia? And what about string interpolation like "$variable" , is there a way to prevent it? I know one can simply write "a\\nb" and "\$variable" in Julia, but I would like to write a lot of LaTeX strings without having to care to proper escape every backslash \ and dollar $ characters... (In Julia, r"..." creates a regular expression.) From Julia 0.6 we have raw"\a$variable" Ok, I just found out that since one can easily create non-standard string