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Topic: Special character weirdness...

Posted By: Nik35
Subject: Special character weirdness...
Date Posted: 30 April 2007 at 1:47pm

Hi,

Just having a bit of an odd one with the special characters.

When I insert for example, this � the actual display page that

reads in the data shows this é.

It's the same for many of the special characters.

The source code of the page shows the �

Am I missing something obvious here???

Thanks.

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Posted By: clueless
Date Posted: 10 May 2008 at 9:06pm

i get this too! every pound sign £ is replaced by a question mark ? or � depends on the browser. why is this, im sure i've not done anything wrong.

thanks for any light anyone can shed on this

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 12 May 2008 at 10:07am

This can be coursed by the page encoding that you use, Try altering the page encoding. This forum uses UTF-8 and as you can see here £, the pound sign works fine in the forums RTE which is the same as used in the standalone RTE.

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Posted By: Northman
Date Posted: 13 May 2008 at 10:19am

Hello there Bruce

We have the same issue on allempires.net, and not only related to the RTE. We get those squares in usernames as well after the update to the new version.

Does that make any difference?

Thanks

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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 13 May 2008 at 10:32am

The issue you have is actually unrelated to this topic as you are talking about something unrelated in Web Wiz Forums and changing the page encoding.

If you see squares in usernames then it means that you are not using the same page encoding as you did with your previous version.

If you change page encoding then the browser tries to render the charcaters based on the new page encoding, if the characters where saved under a different encoding then if the browser can not render the character it displays a square.

To solve this you need to go back to your previous encoding, however anything saved under the new encoding may not render correctly.

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