How can I insert unicode characters into Published html?

I've started using the "Publish" feature again for creating tutorial and exam question solutions. Its very handy, now that there is a way to make the Latex equations come out bigger (and readable!). ( Thread 163367 )

Now, the next issue I am trying to solve is how to get some unicode characters into the published html, to represent (for example), the Ohms symbol Ω or the angle symbol ∠

The trouble is, when I try and insert these into the MATLAB script and publish, it (you may say correctly) "escapes" the & character as & and so Ω comes out as Ω in the published html and this of course then appears in the web browser as Ω again.

An ugly solution is to post-edit every html file and strip out the &'s and replace them with just & again.

But, is there some way of stopping MATLAB adjusting the &'s to &'s?

In my MATLAB script, I am trying to use lines like:

I1_answer = [MFAJR_SigFigStr(abs(I1),2),' ∠ ',MFAJR_SigFigStr(180/pi*angle(I1),2),'° Amps RMS (angle relative to V1)']

I am hoping to get something like this in the final browser window

I1_answer =

2.2 ∠ -90° Amps RMS (angle relative to V1)

But I am actually getting

    I1_answer =

    2.2 ∠ -90° Amps RMS (angle relative to V1)

Any ideas?

By the way, writing this thread took a long time because the forum software keeps evaluating the & codes and I had to double-code all the ampersands. I think it looks right in the final preview/view now..

Answer 1

[Andrew Roscoe]

I have tried doing all sorts of things, even wrapping the unicode inside html tags, i.e. html∠</html>, but MATLAB converts < and > to its web-compliant string as well if these are anywhere other than in a "comment" line. I guess the html markup only works inside a line that starts with % (comment lines).

The only solution I can find is to post-process the html files that MATLAB produces. I have these 3 lines in a DOS batch file (and Perl installed on my PC). These work for the 2 symbols I really want just now. I guess I will need to add more lines if I add more symbols. Ugly!

for /f %%a IN ('dir /b *.html') do perl -pi.orig -e "s/∠/∠/g;" %%a
for /f %%a IN ('dir /b *.html') do perl -pi.orig -e "s/Ω/Ω/g;" %%a
pause