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Japanese characters are encoded with an escaped reference when you switch to HTML view after you save Japanese characters in the HTMLPlaceholder control in Content Management Server 2002 SP2

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SYMPTOMS

You install Microsoft Content Management Server (MCMS) 2002 Service Pack 2. When you switch to HTML view after you save Japanese characters in the HTMLPlaceholder control, you notice that the Japanese characters are encoded with an escaped reference. For example, you may see an escaped reference, such as &#12345.

WORKAROUND

To work around this problem, follow these steps:

Create a Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript) file that is named ActiveXToolbarHooks.vbs and that has the following code.

On Error Resume Next

Dim previousEditingSourceState
previousEditingSourceState = false

Call EnableCompatibleToolbarHooks

Sub OnToolbarInitialize( ByVal pToolbarInterface )
    ' No action required
End Sub

Sub OnToolbarStateInitialize( ByVal strPlaceholderName, ByVal pState )
    ' No action required
End Sub

Sub OnToolbarUpdate( ByVal pActiveHtmlEditor, ByVal bEditingSource )
    ' If switching from typical view to HTML source 
‘ editing then perform a special decode operation
    If (Not previousEditingSourceState) And bEditingSource Then
        pActiveHtmlEditor.dom.body.innerHtml = 
DecodeUnicodeChars(pActiveHtmlEditor.dom.body.innerHtml)
    Else
    End If
    previousEditingSourceState = bEditingSource
End Sub

Sub OnToolbarEvent( Byval pActiveHtmlEditor, ByVal bstrId, 
ByVal pItem, ByVal bEditingSource )
    ' No action required
End Sub

Function DecodeUnicodeChars(inputHTML)

    Dim charEntityRegExp
    Set charEntityRegExp = New RegExp
    charEntityRegExp.Pattern = "&amp;#(\d{1,5});"

    charEntityRegExp.Multiline = True
    charEntityRegExp.Global = True
    charEntityRegExp.IgnoreCase = True

    Dim outputHtml
    outputHtml = inputHtml      

    outputHtml = charEntityRegExp.Replace(outputHtml, GetRef("DecodeMatchedChar"))

    Set charEntityRegExp = Nothing

    DecodeUnicodeChars = outputHtml     
End Function

Function DecodeMatchedChar(fullMatch, subMatch, position, sourceString)  
    DecodeMatchedChar = ChrW(subMatch)
End Function

Copy the ActiveXToolbarHooks.vbs file to the MCMS server location that is available by a virtual path. For example, you may copy the file to the MCMS project directory.
Add the following code to every active server page (ASPX) template file in the MCMS project. Alternatively, you may add the following code to DefaultConsole.aspx file and then add the user control to all ASPX template files.
<cms:AuthoringModeContainer mode="Both" runat="server" id="UnicodeHtmlFixup"> <script language="vbscript" type="text/vbscript" src="/<cmsproject>/ActiveXToolbarHooks.vbs"></script> </cms:AuthoringModeContainer>
Notes
- <cmsproject> is a placeholder for the relative path of the ActiveXToolbarHooks.vbs file.
- Make sure that you use the following MCMS tag prefix:
  <%@ Register TagPrefix="Cms" Namespace="Microsoft.ContentManagement.WebControls" Assembly="Microsoft.ContentManagement.WebControls" %>
- After you complete these steps, the encoded Japanese characters will be decoded in the HTML view when you save a posting.