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Hi - when I publish a page that contains the more unusual punctuation marks like £ EE replaces them with with characters like: “

Is there a cure for this?

Cheers, Liam

What version/build are you running?  And what’s your setting in ‘Admin- System Prefs- General Config’ ‘Default Character Set’?  Are the characters goofed when you go to edit the entry in the control panel?  Or are they just ‘off’ on the front end?

Running 1.6.

Default Char-set is utf-8

Only visible client side. OK when I view the entry via the edit panel. Hyphen, period, emdash, comma, colon are all OK..? - £ sign and a fair few others are showing foreign characters - any ideas?

seem to have solved it.

In: CP Home ›  Admin ›  Weblog Administration ›  Global Weblog Preferences

set: Automatically Convert High ASCII Text to Entities to yes - edited the entries (opened, changed nothing and updated) and the problem has gone 😊

Are you, by any chance, displaying your pages as ISO-8859-1? I mean, you are not likely to notice now, because all the high ascii characters will be converted now, but it would still break on umlauts and such.

Thanks, yeah - <meta http-equiv=“Content-Type” content=“text/html; charset=iso-8859-1” /> is in the head of all my pages called through a static-head include

It’s an old habit, Dreamweaver default.  Should I scrap this?

If you are using utf-8 as your character set for EE’s control panel, I’d use it on the front-end as well, and recommend not auto-converting characters to entities.

What Derek says. Actually, the recommended way is to simply use

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset={charset}" />

Thanks. Just what the doctor ordered.