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Topic: Cannot put � sign in posts

Posted By: j172
Subject: Cannot put � sign in posts
Date Posted: 22 September 2006 at 9:18pm

Hi,

I have a problem when you are writing a post or a reply or anything of the sort and you put a "�" pound sign in the text when the post is displayed it misses out the � sign, it disapears completley.

Does anybody know why?

Regards

Joel

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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 22 September 2006 at 10:54pm

I can see the � perfectly well in your post, so I guess this is just effecting your forum?

If that is the case it could be that you have incorrectly changed the page encoding to one that doesn't support the � sign.

As the � GPB is my own native currency here in the UK I certainly wouldn't want to develop a forum it doesn't work in.

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Posted By: j172
Date Posted: 25 September 2006 at 9:15am

Yes it is just effecting my forum, i'm in the uk too but i havnt changed any of the encoding, if i accidently have, which is the default settings and which page is it located on

Thanks

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 25 September 2006 at 11:13am

You would need to manually edit a file which is not easy to change the encoding so I doubt you have done this.

It could also be your browser which is effecting this, try using a different browser.

It could also be the locale settings on the server itself which is effecting this if they haven't been set correctly.

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Posted By: j172
Date Posted: 26 September 2006 at 11:44am

I've fixed it now i changed the 'browser_page_encoding_inc.asp'

From:

'Western European ISO
'Const strPageEncoding = "iso-8859-1"

'Unicode UTF-8
Const strPageEncoding = "utf-8"

and it works fine now

Joel