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jennettez43686623
jennettez43686623
Participant
February 26, 2020
Question

 symbol after some words

  • February 26, 2020
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Hi all,

 

In some of my html files, I am getting an Â symbol at the end of a few words. There does not seem to be a pattern, and I don't see anything in the code. The weirder issue is that I don't see it on my screen, but my colleague does on hers. It is never at the start of a word, only at the end. She does have a different version of Dreamweaver from me, but I've tried looking at it in multiple browsers, pasting it into other programs, and I never see the symbol.

 

Does anyone know what might be causing this and how to fix it?

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magical_Charm15C3
magical_Charm15C3
Inspiring
February 26, 2020

Oddly enough, my wife had that problem yesterday with ther email app, Thunderbird. We rebooted it and that fixed it.

    Nancy OShea
    Community Expert
    Nancy OSheaCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    February 26, 2020

    It could be caused by an undeclared UTF char-set as Paul said.  But if it's not that, we need more info. 

    • Where exactly does your colleague see the character -- Code, Live or Design view?
    • Which versions of DW do you each have?
    • Which operating systems do you each have?
    • What's the URL to your online page?

     

    Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
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    Paul-M
    Legend
    February 26, 2020

    You need make sure the UTF charset is declared

    in HTML5 <meta charset="UTF-8">

    Old HTML 4: <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8"> 

    Post a link to the page for more help, are you using any dynamic data/ retrieving information from a database?

    Paul-M - Community Expert
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