[reportlab-users] Less than, Greater than, Ampersand, Oh My!

[Andy Robinson]

Tom Wiebe wrote:
> Hi There again,
> 
> Just wondering what the best way to encode <,>,& and the like. In my
> initial flailing about developing on my mac, I simply replaced them
> with their html-encoded entities and it worked like a charm. i.e.
> &lt;, &gt;, &amp; (I know it's not in the manual, I tried it and it
> worked first go so I left it there).
> 
> Now, when I'm trying to get things to work on the Windows side of
> things, my earlier success with html encoding seems to not work any
> longer, giving me the following error:
> 
> ABag instance has no attribute 'strike'
> 

Tom, are you using subversion or daily builds, or the released 2.0?

Also, do you have pyRXP/pyRXPu and _rl_accel installed?  Parsing may be 
different when falling back into Python and/or differences in installed 
extensions between the machines may explain the windows/mac difference.

We did some work a few days ago adding support for strikethrough text 
and it sounds like we have a bug either therein or in parsing the 
unicode.  We should be able to look at this today.

Best Regards,

Andy Robinson