Problems with charset? Cant copy...

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Hi, i use The HTML Editor 14.1 on windows 7 ultimate 64. I like to build a language menu for a website. Problem is, that i cant copy the words for russian, chinese and arabic into the editor, i got online questionmarks...
If i open a saved document from the internet wich contain such chars like wikipedia and save the document again and reopen it in the same browser, all the chars from other languages like arabic, russian, chinese, hebrew etc. are replaced by a question mark.

Is this a bug? Even if i write with the windows onboard notepad such chars and save it as html i have no problems to see all this chars in my browser... I'm a little bit shocked...

Have anyone an idea?

Sincerely,
Stephan
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Hello there,

Currently the HTML Editor can not display double-byte languages when previewed. To have the characters show correctly in the HTML Editor you would need to use the HTML Character Code related to that letter. You can find a full list of these codes here at W3CSchools please note that there is a "Next Reference" link where you can find the character set you are looking for.

We do plan on updating the Editor to support double-byte languages in the near future and I will send this up as a request on your part as well.
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Thanks for your quick answer! I ended up with the solution u can see in my screenshot. I used an onlineconverter, but this is in a long way no solution, especially for long texts...
But in my opinion this is not only a problem of displaying incorrectly. As i wrote in my last post, i opened an saved article from Wikipedia where u can find a language list on the left side. The languages with for example arabic, hebrew, cyrillian, chinese letters are only displayed by an questenmark in the Editor. If this would be only a problem of displaying wrong, it would be shown right after resaving the html file right? But it dosn't! After resaving and reopenig the article in the same browser, there are only the question marks where you before could see the original letters.
The Editor, thats my conclusion, are unable to handle this caracters in any way. If this would be only a problem of displaying, i wouldn't really care about it.

And thanks for sending this as a feature request.
Sincerely,
Stephan
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I have the same problem. I can plug the Russian text into Front Page Express on my old laptop and the character codes are there. I can set up the html, save the page and I am done. Problem is, I now have a new desktop with windows 64 bit. It is a real hassle to plug things into the frntpage on the other computer and then take it off to put on my other computer. Even though they are networked, it is a hassle especially with larger documents. I hope you will fix this SOON!
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I have this problem but not with Russian or Arabic but with Spanish characters like the á or á
I appreciate that the robust way is to use the HPTM escape codes but for a quick edit to an exisitng page can end up in creating lots of work.

After a quick edit and upload many (but not all) of the non ASCII characters display as a "?" and need to be replaced one by one. I assume this is the same issue mentioned on this thread. Any news on the progress on the upgrade?

best regards,
Chris

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