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Participant
Apr 23, 2021 8:17 AM UTC
Question

Special Characters, two things!

Two things:

 

Would it be possible for DreamWeaver to mark as errors those special characters that will not render correctly in modern browsers? As the moment my work flow involves uploading a page, checking for errors, finding those effors on the DW file, correcting and then re-uploading. 

 

Secondly, why is the DW special character screen a drop-menu, sub-menu, sub-menu away and then so limited?

 

Thanks!

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    B i r n o u
    Legend
    Apr 23, 2021 10:47 AM UTC

    which characters are you referring to ?

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    Participant
    Apr 23, 2021 12:29 PM UTC

    All sorts: non-breaking spaces, acents, n-dash, m-dash, &, etc. If these are copied into DW they 'appear' to render correctly, when when viewed in a browser I get a black diamond with a ? symbol.

     

    This morning, I copied some text over with "front façade of the building" text in it. I caught two of the "façades" and changed these to "façade", but I missed the third... and had to go back to DW to edit and re-upload.

     

    (I have no idea how "façade" and/or "façade" are going to render in this message.)

     

    Mark

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    Jon Fritz
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    Apr 23, 2021 12:51 PM UTC

    What Charset are you using on the site?

    You should see something like this in the <head> of your page...

    <meta charset="utf-8">

     

    The utf-8 charset should have no issue with the vast majority of accents. 

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