How do I force dreamweaver to encode PHP files properly?

[cjt3007]

Often times when I re-open a php document that has emoji characters inside of it, they turn into non-emoji codes. I've set preferences for new document creation to be UTF-8, and for it to apply to opening existing documents - but it hasn't helped. Anyone have a suggestion?

[BenPleysier]

Could you create a new document complete with the echo statement. Then copy the code and place it here so that we can see what is going on under the hood.

[B i r n o u]

<?php
	echo "\u{1F603}";
?>

you will find the emoticon list here

https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html

and then in exemple

use U+1F606 as \u{1F606}

[cjt3007]

Hmm, why would that be a requirement, though? I can paste the characters directly from emojipedia and they echo fine in-browser when I PUT the file. In TextEditor they show up fine when I open the php file, too. The primary issue is that they do not ALWAYS show up fine in dreamweaver, and when dreamweaver fails to render them I cannot paste the emoji character from emojipedia directly. This is a dreamweaver issue only when re-opening documents, too - not when I put the emoji in a fresh document.

[B i r n o u]

well, for me here, the copy paste works like a charm...copy from https://emojipedia.org and paste in Dreamweaver either, code view or display view, both works.

if you need I can send you a screen capture of the demo.

then it's up to you to work using, copy paste with the emoticon, or use the utf encoding.

personnaly, I prefer the encoding string... but it's a matter of choice

[cjt3007]

So is it a bug in my copy of dreamweaver that it only lets me save/upload files with pasted emoji if the document is new? If I open a document with emoji then it makes them the code in my echo screenshot - which is fine because they render fine in browser - but I cannot save/put a re-opened document if I paste an actual emoji any longer which is frustrating and not how it should work. There should be zero difference in my ability to past the emoji in a new document and a re-opened document ; if my point wasn't clear. Hence why I think there's a setting I should be able to set to tell dreamweaver to apply UTF-8 when re-opening documents, which it is SUPPOSED to according to the first screenshot - but fails.

[Blakilox]

How can it be in this day and age when it comes to UTF-8 Dreamweaver is so stupid?

[Nancy OShea]

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