Hello,
is there someone that encountered the same problems I'm experiencing with characters used in the Italian language (and some others present on It keyboards layout?)
I'm talking about web pages already coded manually or supported by Expression Web. If I open the URL of these pages with a normal updated browser (IE7 or Firefox configured with English language as the default one) I can properly view all the characters.
If I open them with HTML Editor 2008, to edit their content, all the accented chars (à , è, é as well as ") are substituted with ampersand and other wrong ones.
I already tried to change the charset from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1 removing all the Microsoft <HEAD> schemas eventually present etc....
In the HTML Editor Options Window I'm not able to find any useful tool to arrange this issue.
Thanks in advance for any useful suggestion.
Stefania
HTML Editor 2008 Wrong Characters...
Stefano Castelli
Registered User
3 posts
Stefano Castelli
Registered User
3 posts
Ok,
hoping it might be useful for other foreign users trying to migrate to the CoffeCup developing platform, the only way I found to use already coded HTML docs that contain ASCII chars > than 127 (to be more explicit, accented letters like 'è', '� ', 'é', 'ù', 'ò' or special chars like '"'), the sequence to follow is the one explained in the sequence shown in the jpgs available at this address:
http://www.stefania.us/faq
I try to propose the sequence here even if the jpgs size can be hardly housed by the forum layout template (so the quality can be lower than the originals):
The Preview is correct:
http://www.stefania.us/faq/01_Preview.jpg
The Visual shows wrong characters:
http://www.stefania.us/faq/02_Visual.jpg
The Code behave the same:
http://www.stefania.us/faq/03_Code.jpg
After switching back to the preview, some empty spaces are filled with generic chars
http://www.stefania.us/faq/04_Preview_after_switching.jpg
After many tries, trying to get a solution through general options, the only way I found was through the Code Cleaner
http://www.stefania.us/faq/05_Code_Cleaner.jpg
I set up the code cleaner this way
http://www.stefania.us/faq/06_Uncheck_Everything_on_layout_fix_and_convert.jpg
Flag the raw charset selection
http://www.stefania.us/faq/07_Select_Raw_on_Character_Encoding.jpg
This way the code editor shows the right chars
http://www.stefania.us/faq/08_Code_editor_now_is_clean.jpg
And even the Visual One
http://www.stefania.us/faq/09_Visual_editor_now_is_clean.jpg
Even the preview....
http://www.stefania.us/faq/10_Preview_is_correct.jpg
The problem is that every doc must be saved this way, unchecking any time all the features present on the code cleaner window.
Is quite annoying and I hope the developers may code very soon a solution for these kinds of issues.
Of course if any better and more efficient solution is available, I thank in advance who will post it.
Stefania Castelli
hoping it might be useful for other foreign users trying to migrate to the CoffeCup developing platform, the only way I found to use already coded HTML docs that contain ASCII chars > than 127 (to be more explicit, accented letters like 'è', '� ', 'é', 'ù', 'ò' or special chars like '"'), the sequence to follow is the one explained in the sequence shown in the jpgs available at this address:
http://www.stefania.us/faq
I try to propose the sequence here even if the jpgs size can be hardly housed by the forum layout template (so the quality can be lower than the originals):
The Preview is correct:
http://www.stefania.us/faq/01_Preview.jpg
The Visual shows wrong characters:
http://www.stefania.us/faq/02_Visual.jpg
The Code behave the same:
http://www.stefania.us/faq/03_Code.jpg
After switching back to the preview, some empty spaces are filled with generic chars
http://www.stefania.us/faq/04_Preview_after_switching.jpg
After many tries, trying to get a solution through general options, the only way I found was through the Code Cleaner
http://www.stefania.us/faq/05_Code_Cleaner.jpg
I set up the code cleaner this way
http://www.stefania.us/faq/06_Uncheck_Everything_on_layout_fix_and_convert.jpg
Flag the raw charset selection
http://www.stefania.us/faq/07_Select_Raw_on_Character_Encoding.jpg
This way the code editor shows the right chars
http://www.stefania.us/faq/08_Code_editor_now_is_clean.jpg
And even the Visual One
http://www.stefania.us/faq/09_Visual_editor_now_is_clean.jpg
Even the preview....
http://www.stefania.us/faq/10_Preview_is_correct.jpg
The problem is that every doc must be saved this way, unchecking any time all the features present on the code cleaner window.
Is quite annoying and I hope the developers may code very soon a solution for these kinds of issues.
Of course if any better and more efficient solution is available, I thank in advance who will post it.
Stefania Castelli
Cary
Ambassador
1,073 posts
I don't know of a simpler method of making the pages usable with HTML EDITOR. It doesn't support UTF-8 yet, but the preview uses IE's rendering engine so that works fine. Unfortunately, any solution will require converting the pages to a Western European encoding such as iso-8859-1 or windows-1252.
Stefano Castelli
Registered User
3 posts
Cary wrote:
I don't know of a simpler method of making the pages usable with HTML EDITOR. It doesn't support UTF-8 yet, but the preview uses IE's rendering engine so that works fine. Unfortunately, any solution will require converting the pages to a Western European encoding such as iso-8859-1 or windows-1252.
I don't know of a simpler method of making the pages usable with HTML EDITOR. It doesn't support UTF-8 yet, but the preview uses IE's rendering engine so that works fine. Unfortunately, any solution will require converting the pages to a Western European encoding such as iso-8859-1 or windows-1252.
Thank you Cary,
I understand it.
Being "on the run" from a lot of years, I expected from the CoffeCup main apps, some more attention to the International (even if colored, noisy Italians ;-)) Customer needs (UTF-8 is not a minor african encoding solution of the last months...).
Anyway I put the solution of this issue on my CoffeCup Executives Christmas Wish List ;-)
A nice day to all the forum.
Stefania
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