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Convert Special Characters to HTML - ColdFusion

I need to convert a lot of special characters to their html format and I am trying to do this with a function that is using ReplaceList but something is wrong with the function or the values I am passing to it.

This is the function

<cffunction name="HtmlUnEditFormat" access="public" returntype="string" output="no" displayname="HtmlUnEditFormat" hint="Undo escaped characters">
    <cfargument name="str" type="string" required="Yes" />
    <cfscript>
        var lEntities = "&##xE7;,&##xF4;,&##xE2;,&Icirc;,&Ccedil;,&Egrave;,&Oacute;,&Ecirc;,&OElig,&Acirc;,&laquo;,&raquo;,&Agrave;,&Eacute;,&le;,&yacute;,&chi;,&sum;,&prime;,&yuml;,&sim;,&beta;,&lceil;,&ntilde;,&szlig;,&bdquo;,&acute;,&middot;,&ndash;,&sigmaf;,&reg;,&dagger;,&oplus;,&otilde;,&eta;,&rceil;,&oacute;,&shy;,&gt;,&phi;,&ang;,&rlm;,&alpha;,&cap;,&darr;,&upsilon;,&image;,&sup3;,&rho;,&eacute;,&sup1;,&lt;,&cent;,&cedil;,&pi;,&sup;,&divide;,&fnof;,&iquest;,&ecirc;,&ensp;,&empty;,&forall;,&emsp;,&gamma;,&iexcl;,&oslash;,&not;,&agrave;,&eth;,&alefsym;,&ordm;,&psi;,&otimes;,&delta;,&ouml;,&deg;,&cong;,&ordf;,&lsaquo;,&clubs;,&acirc;,&ograve;,&iuml;,&diams;,&aelig;,&and;,&loz;,&egrave;,&frac34;,&amp;,&nsub;,&nu;,&ldquo;,&isin;,&ccedil;,&circ;,&copy;,&aacute;,&sect;,&mdash;,&euml;,&kappa;,&notin;,&lfloor;,&ge;,&igrave;,&harr;,&lowast;,&ocirc;,&infin;,&brvbar;,&int;,&macr;,&frac12;,&curren;,&asymp;,&lambda;,&frasl;,&lsquo;,&hellip;,&oelig;,&pound;,&hearts;,&minus;,&atilde;,&epsilon;,&nabla;,&exist;,&auml;,&mu;,&frac14;,&nbsp;,&equiv;,&bull;,&larr;,&laquo;,&oline;,&or;,&euro;,&micro;,&ne;,&cup;,&aring;,&iota;,&iacute;,&perp;,&para;,&rarr;,&raquo;,&ucirc;,&omicron;,&sbquo;,&thetasym;,&ni;,&part;,&rdquo;,&weierp;,&permil;,&sup2;,&sigma;,&sdot;,&scaron;,&yen;,&xi;,&plusmn;,&real;,&thorn;,&rang;,&ugrave;,&radic;,&zwj;,&there4;,&uarr;,&times;,&thinsp;,&theta;,&rfloor;,&sub;,&supe;,&uuml;,&rsquo;,&zeta;,&trade;,&icirc;,&piv;,&zwnj;,&lang;,&tilde;,&uacute;,&uml;,&prop;,&upsih;,&omega;,&crarr;,&tau;,&sube;,&rsaquo;,&prod;,&quot;,&lrm;,&spades;";
        var lEntitiesChars = "ç,ô,â,Î,Ç,È,Ó,Ê,Œ,Â,«,»,À,É,?,ý,?,?,?,Ÿ,?,?,?,ñ,ß,„,´,·,–,?,®,‡,?,õ,?,?,ó,­,>,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,³,?,é,¹,<,¢,¸,?,?,÷,ƒ,¿,ê,?,?,?,?,?,¡,ø,¬,à,ð,?,º,?,?,?,ö,°,?,ª,‹,?,â,ò,ï,?,æ,?,?,è,¾,&,?,?,“,?,ç,ˆ,©,á,§,—,ë,?,?,?,?,ì,?,?,ô,?,¦,?,¯,½,¤,?,?,?,‘,…,œ,£,?,?,ã,?,?,?,ä,?,¼, ,?,•,?,«,?,?,€,µ,?,?,å,?,í,?,¶,?,»,û,?,‚,?,?,?,”,?,‰,²,?,?,š,¥,?,±,?,þ,?,ù,?,?,?,?,×,?,?,?,?,?,ü,’,?,™,î,?,?,?,˜,ú,¨,?,?,?,?,?,?,›,?,"",?,?";
    </cfscript>
    <cfreturn ReplaceList(arguments.str, lEntities, lEntitiesChars) />
</cffunction>

This is how I am calling it:

<cfoutput>
    <cfloop query="local.q" startrow="2">
       #HtmlUnEditFormat(consultServiceType)# <br />
    </cfloop>
</cfoutput>

These are the strings I am passing to it:

Security?
Security Guard®
Alarm System©
Private Investigator;

I am not getting any errors back (I had a cftry in the function before) and the strings come back the same

EDIT:

I've tried using #FindNoCase('©',consultServiceType)# and is returning 0 so I guess something is wrong with the string I am passing in?

Solution

  • You're using CF11, did you try EncodeForHTML() ?