Why does my most recent HTML editor (build 305) change my special characters back to normal characters? I type in £ or • and lo and behold, after saving I am presented with £ and • neither of which display correctly in the browser?

Are you working in Code Editor mode or Visual Editor mode?

You may have this meta tag in the head of the page:


If so, then change that "utf-8" part so you have this:

Or 'maybe' switching between the two?

What I couldn't get when you put "£" character in the editor, it just doesn't work. So I had to write it out etc. It's not really much of a problem, I just thought it was because CC is a USA company and not catering for the English

are you guys using the "character" tab to enter your characters? If not, try that and see if it works that way? If so then ... never mind

"It's not really much of a problem, I just thought it was because CC is a USA company and not catering for the English."

It really doesn't have much to do CC's country-of-origin. Fact is, the British Pound Sterling symbol is defined in HTML as "£"...

Re Cary's response above - CC has automatically inserted 'charset-us-ascii' in the web page that gives me a problem. I've changed it as you suggested and it seems to work fine. The editor still changes £ to £ but it displays correctly on the live page.

Incidentally, the character does change when I switch from code to visual editor.

On a similar vein - on closer examination CC does set up a new page with the charset = utf-8, but I note that some of my older pages, written using versions of the editor some time ago have the charset = unicode. Is there somewhere to set a default?

Thanks for all the responses!

Part of your problem may be this switching. HTML Editor is not designed to be able to switch between the two. You need to choose one or the other and stick with that choice as they are coded differently and switching between the two will muck up your code.

Unfortunately, no. I go to "Document" > "Document Properties..." and then select "Western Alphabet" for the Charset, if I need to change the specified character set.