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October 23, 2023
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Dreamweaver CC 2020 weird character in the design view

  • October 23, 2023
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Since 1 week I have weird character in the design HTML file but my CSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS are in default fonts... the weird apear on letter with accent à, é, è, etc....

 

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    Correct answer Nancy OShea
    1. Is only in Dreamweaver Design View that you see the weird characters? 
    2. Have you tried in a browser?

     

     


    I think we're spinning our wheels here.  The OP is not understanding anything we've said.

     

     

     

     

    2 replies

    Community Expert
    October 23, 2023

    This is usually the behavior when your system has a corrupted font on it. Have you recently added any new fonts to your system? If so, I would start there and remove those fonts and see if things return to normal.

    yapp1212Author
    Known Participant
    February 3, 2024

    yes but i dont know with fonts may be corrupted if this is the problem...

    Nancy OShea
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    February 3, 2024

    Use a more suitable doctype and the universal character set like this:

     

    <!doctype html>
    <html lang="fr">
    <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>Document Title</title>
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">

     

    Nobody uses ISO Latin text on web pages anymore.

     

     

     

    Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
    yapp1212Author
    Known Participant
    October 23, 2023

    This is what I have in dreamweavers and the first image is when I imported to external mailing software.

    Nancy OShea
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    October 23, 2023

    Which encoded meta charset is your document using?  It should be near the top of your code, under the <title> tag.

    UTF-8 is supported by most languages and causes the least problems. 

     

    Problems ensue when you mix encoding types like UTF-8 with ISO-Latin entities.

     

    Also validate code and fix any reported errors.

     

    Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
    yapp1212Author
    Known Participant
    October 24, 2023

    This is what I have in my HTML file

     

    <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
    <html>
    <head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">