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How to prevent conversion of & in special characters to &

Guest
Jul 31, 2009 Jul 31, 2009

I'm trying to use the special character √ in my help files.  However, the editor keeps changing the ampersand to & whenever I go from HTML to design view.  How do I stop this behaviour?

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Jul 31, 2009 Jul 31, 2009

Several people have had trouble with HTML special characters in their "spelled-out" versions.

Have you tried a numeric enconding for the same symbol? My Windows charmap shows a character reference of U+221A (I think this translates to UTF-8 0x221A); a site called webref.info shows an HTML encoding of &#8730. The HTML numeric seems more likely, but I think that RH went UTF-8 compliant in version RH7 or 8.

You could also try select/copy/paste from Windows charmap - I don't know if that will work bet

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Guest
Jul 31, 2009 Jul 31, 2009

Several people have had trouble with HTML special characters in their "spelled-out" versions.

Have you tried a numeric enconding for the same symbol? My Windows charmap shows a character reference of U+221A (I think this translates to UTF-8 0x221A); a site called webref.info shows an HTML encoding of &#8730. The HTML numeric seems more likely, but I think that RH went UTF-8 compliant in version RH7 or 8.

You could also try select/copy/paste from Windows charmap - I don't know if that will work better, but RoboHelp is fairly Windows-oriented.

Sorry I can't be more specific, but I have an older version of RH and can't test these suggestions.

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LEGEND ,
Jul 31, 2009 Jul 31, 2009

Hi there

Personally, I'm wondering why it's a problem for you. Do the characters display different than you want in the resulting HTML page? If not, don't sweat it. Let RoboHelp do what it needs to do with the character on the back side.

In the ends, as long as it displays as it should, will it really matter?

Cheers... Rick

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Guest
Jul 31, 2009 Jul 31, 2009

This worked out switching to a number based encoding.  RoboHelp stopped stripping my & from the start when I used that.  Thank you!

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Guest
Jul 31, 2009 Jul 31, 2009

@Captiv8r, the problem is that it doesn't display properly on the outputs because of the conversion of the ampersand

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LEGEND ,
Jul 31, 2009 Jul 31, 2009
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Hi again

Okay, my bad. I thought we were dealing with basic ampersand ( & ). I see you wanted the radical ( √ ).

I just tried what was suggested with using √ and it seems to work fine. At least in RoboHelp 7 it does.

Cheers... Rick

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