"£" showing as "£" - Post ID 204816
Finuala Tarnoff
Registered User
4 posts
I have recently purchased CoffeCup as I changed machines and my HotDog software no longer worked. I appreciate this software is US based, but previewing a page showed that where I wanted "£", I got "£". Surely there must be a way to get round this issue - anyone have any idea how? Or have I wasted my money buying this software???
Inger
Senior Advisor
14,624 posts
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Firstly, have you gone to Tools - Preferences - Browser testing and set the default browser to IE9?
Secondly, make sure to use html5 as the doc type and utf-8 as the charset declaration.
That should normally fix the problem. If it doesn't, where are you based? UK? I'm in Norway and I get the £ if I want it, but maybe there is another user from your country who can advise further.
Secondly, make sure to use html5 as the doc type and utf-8 as the charset declaration.
That should normally fix the problem. If it doesn't, where are you based? UK? I'm in Norway and I get the £ if I want it, but maybe there is another user from your country who can advise further.
Ha en riktig god dag!
Inger, Norway
My work in progress:
Components for Site Designer and the HTML Editor: https://mock-up.coffeecup.com
Inger, Norway
My work in progress:
Components for Site Designer and the HTML Editor: https://mock-up.coffeecup.com
Dave Butler
Ambassador
375 posts
Try £
or £
infront of number of pounds
eg
£50 or £50
This works for me in the UK
or £
infront of number of pounds
eg
£50 or £50
This works for me in the UK
Dave Butler
Yorkshire
England
Old Rishworthians Rugby Union Football club http://www.orrufc.co.uk
Tuxedo Junction Yorkshire Function Band http://www.riley-tuxedojunction.co.uk
The Commons Guest House http://www.thecommons-guesthouse.co.uk
all created with Coffee Cup html editor
Yorkshire
England
Old Rishworthians Rugby Union Football club http://www.orrufc.co.uk
Tuxedo Junction Yorkshire Function Band http://www.riley-tuxedojunction.co.uk
The Commons Guest House http://www.thecommons-guesthouse.co.uk
all created with Coffee Cup html editor
Finuala Tarnoff
Registered User
4 posts
Thanks guys, the "£" worked for £. Now I have a new (I assume related) problem where some (but not all) "-" are showing as "–". Any ideas as to the resolution to that one?
Dave Butler
Ambassador
375 posts
If that a minus sign use
−
−
Dave Butler
Yorkshire
England
Old Rishworthians Rugby Union Football club http://www.orrufc.co.uk
Tuxedo Junction Yorkshire Function Band http://www.riley-tuxedojunction.co.uk
The Commons Guest House http://www.thecommons-guesthouse.co.uk
all created with Coffee Cup html editor
Yorkshire
England
Old Rishworthians Rugby Union Football club http://www.orrufc.co.uk
Tuxedo Junction Yorkshire Function Band http://www.riley-tuxedojunction.co.uk
The Commons Guest House http://www.thecommons-guesthouse.co.uk
all created with Coffee Cup html editor
Inger
Senior Advisor
14,624 posts
Online Now
Dave, do you really have to use those '&something;' in Britain? What doctype and charset do you use it with? I really thought that html 5 and utf-8 would be enough. No problems with $, £, € plus or minus here. Even the German 'umlaut' letters and the French accented ones can be written just like that, not to forget our own Norwegian æøå..
Ha en riktig god dag!
Inger, Norway
My work in progress:
Components for Site Designer and the HTML Editor: https://mock-up.coffeecup.com
Inger, Norway
My work in progress:
Components for Site Designer and the HTML Editor: https://mock-up.coffeecup.com
Dave Butler
Ambassador
375 posts
Hi Inger
Here is my doctype and charset
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>Old Rishworthians rugby union club website - Senior, Mini and junior rugby union in Halifax</title>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" />
I do not have any problems with the minus sign but have to use £ to get the £ sign to display correctly.
I have not had the opportunity to do any work using html 5
Here is my doctype and charset
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>Old Rishworthians rugby union club website - Senior, Mini and junior rugby union in Halifax</title>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" />
I do not have any problems with the minus sign but have to use £ to get the £ sign to display correctly.
I have not had the opportunity to do any work using html 5
Dave Butler
Yorkshire
England
Old Rishworthians Rugby Union Football club http://www.orrufc.co.uk
Tuxedo Junction Yorkshire Function Band http://www.riley-tuxedojunction.co.uk
The Commons Guest House http://www.thecommons-guesthouse.co.uk
all created with Coffee Cup html editor
Yorkshire
England
Old Rishworthians Rugby Union Football club http://www.orrufc.co.uk
Tuxedo Junction Yorkshire Function Band http://www.riley-tuxedojunction.co.uk
The Commons Guest House http://www.thecommons-guesthouse.co.uk
all created with Coffee Cup html editor
Inger
Senior Advisor
14,624 posts
Online Now
Thanks.
Make a small test site with html5 and utf-8, upload it and see what you get.
Make a small test site with html5 and utf-8, upload it and see what you get.
Ha en riktig god dag!
Inger, Norway
My work in progress:
Components for Site Designer and the HTML Editor: https://mock-up.coffeecup.com
Inger, Norway
My work in progress:
Components for Site Designer and the HTML Editor: https://mock-up.coffeecup.com
David Sadler
Registered User
2 posts
I too have switched over from the dead (but great) HotDog Pro to CoffeeCup HTML Editor after moving from WinXP to Win7 before XP dies on April 8, 2014.
All pages authored in HotDog were showing (•) for bullets when displayed in and uploaded to the web by CC. Looking for a solution, I found this discussion.
Using Inger's suggestions:
1) Changing default browser from IE8 to IE9 did not help. Changed it back to IE8.
2) Changing charset=windows-1252 to charset=utf-8 SOLVED the issue of CC changing bullets (•) into •. Thanks, Inger!
Now to see how to do a site-wide update for all pages to change "charset=windows-1252" to "charset=utf-8".
CoffeeCup looks like it is going to be just fine. Very slick in many ways, and I like the company's attitude and the robust user community. I just have to handle the learning curve to discover where everything is and how CC does things.
All pages authored in HotDog were showing (•) for bullets when displayed in and uploaded to the web by CC. Looking for a solution, I found this discussion.
Using Inger's suggestions:
1) Changing default browser from IE8 to IE9 did not help. Changed it back to IE8.
2) Changing charset=windows-1252 to charset=utf-8 SOLVED the issue of CC changing bullets (•) into •. Thanks, Inger!
Now to see how to do a site-wide update for all pages to change "charset=windows-1252" to "charset=utf-8".
CoffeeCup looks like it is going to be just fine. Very slick in many ways, and I like the company's attitude and the robust user community. I just have to handle the learning curve to discover where everything is and how CC does things.
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