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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!

 

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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bradoyler
New member | Level 2
9 years ago

Doh! You're right.

Proper way to do this in Node 6+ is like this:

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

But yea, I can't think of a reason why an SDK user would want different behavior from the HTTP API.

Thanks!

 

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    Greg-DB
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    8 years ago
    For reference, that is no longer necessary with the latest version of the SDK, v.3.x. You can just use fileBinary directly.
    • Greg-DB's avatar
      Greg-DB
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      8 years ago
      Unfortunately, this caused a different issue. Please upgrade to v4.0.0 and use the Buffer workaround again. Apologies for the bother.

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