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bradoyler
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9 years ago
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docs contain invalid chars

using JS sdk method paperDocsDownload({ doc_id, export_format: 'html' }) and certain character (m-dash, curly quotes) come thru as â.   The test document is here: https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/test...
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  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
    9 years ago

    Thanks!

     

    I was able to reproduce the issue. It looks like it is a matter of encoding it properly. You can do so like this:

     

    new Buffer(doc.fileBinary, 'binary').toString()

    I'll ask the team to look into whether or not the SDK should/can do that for you though.

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Greg-DB
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9 years ago
Thanks! Can you share the rest of the problematic code though? Thanks in advance!
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Greg-DB
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9 years ago
The 'paper2json' GitHub link you shared is a 404 for me. (Perhaps it's not publicly accessible?)

In any case, can you share just the code snippet(s) needed to reproduce the 'â' issue?

When I download the data to an html file using `URL.createObjectURL(response.fileBlob)` the resulting html file shows the correct characters.
  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
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    9 years ago
    The repo is available now, and it looks like you're running in node and not browser JavaScript like I was testing with. I'll try your code in node. Thanks!
    • bradoyler's avatar
      bradoyler
      New member | Level 2
      9 years ago

      interestingly, I dont see the malformed html when I use the http api via: 

      curl -X POST https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/paper/docs/download \
    --header "Authorization: Bearer xxyyzzzzzz" \
    --header "Dropbox-API-Arg: {\"doc_id\": \"S7sSIlM2E0g6p3OXhhts4\",\"export_format\": \"html\"}"
      • Greg-DB's avatar
        Greg-DB
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        9 years ago

        Thanks!

         

        I was able to reproduce the issue. It looks like it is a matter of encoding it properly. You can do so like this:

         

        new Buffer(doc.fileBinary, 'binary').toString()

        I'll ask the team to look into whether or not the SDK should/can do that for you though.

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