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When creating a new entry that uses Unicode characters (which is to say characters with code points beyond those found within ISO-8859-1), they are being converted to HTML entities. So “ becomes “, — becomes —, etc. This is undesirable.

I long ago set $config[‘auto_convert_high_ascii’] = “n”; in config.php, but it does not make any difference. I tried to follow the instructions in the user guide, but they’re nonsensical, as I gather EllisLabs is aware. Somebody who may or may not work for EllisLabs—it’s impossible to tell, but his comment implies that he does—writes that “utf-8 is used throughout” ExpressionEngine, apparently a recent change. This would seem to imply that Unicode characters shouldn’t be touched, yet they are being altered every time.

This is in EE v2.2.2 (20110801).

Any ideas?

Hi Waldo,

Somebody who may or may not work for EllisLabs—it’s impossible to tell, but his comment implies that he does—writes that “utf-8 is used throughout” ExpressionEngine, apparently a recent change.

As per the related thread. That option has been removed since EE2.1.2. Ingmar was a past employee of EllisLab

I tried to follow the instructions in the user guide, but they’re nonsensical

As per the other page where a bug report was filed this page has incorrect info on it too so I also filed a bug report

What type of custom field are you using? What Default Text Formatting for This Field do you have set for the field?

Do you have any add-ons installed?

I’m using Wygwam. It hadn’t occurred to me that could be an issue (my assumption was that an EE-wide setting would be implemented across EE), but now that you raise the issue of field type, I’ve looked into it and, apparently, this is something that’s controlled within JavaScript, in CKEditor (on which Wygwam is based). Clearly, then, this has nothing to do with EllisLabs, so I’ll take it up with Pixel and Tonic. Thank you for your help.

Waldo Jaquith,

Glad to know you are all set. If you need assistance in the future, please let us know by starting a new thread.

Cheers!