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Participant
April 23, 2021
Question

Special Characters, two things!

  • April 23, 2021
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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
    April 23, 2021

    which characters are you referring to ?

    Participant
    April 23, 2021

    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

    Jon Fritz
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    April 23, 2021

    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.