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Does anybody know the best way to incorporate special characters in EE? I want to write a Czech expression, ’ Zlaté Časy ‘, and tried writing it in Open Office and pasting it into a blog, but it doesn’t format correctly. Thanks in advance

It’s an encoding issue, but generally not a problem. You should probably use “utf-8” througout, ie in yur database and in all your templates. As you can see, it works here in the forum as well. “Great times”, hm?

hi,
well, it’s already set to utf-8, so I don’t know why I’m having this problem. Not so much great, but ‘golden times’ or, I suppose the closest in English would be ‘golden years’ 😉

Well, I really don’t speak any Czech, and Googling will only get you so far 😊 Seriously, though, do you’ve got a link to the site in question? As an Austrian I am well acquainted with “umlaut” issues… In your case it’s accents and háčeks, but the problem is the same.

hi Ingmar, I’ve sorted it 😊 I had to go to Admin > Global Weblog Preferences and make sure you the “Automatically Convert High ASCII Text to Entities” was set to YES. I found a previous posting: http://expressionengine.com/knowledge_base/article/special_characters_arent_showing_up_correctly/

My site, BTW, is http://www.clawdylawdy.dreamhosters.com/index.php/build_series/reviews_detail/zlate_casy/
I’m just fooling around, getting used to EE before I do something good 😉
Thanks for your help

David

hello again,
there’s just one other thing I notice about the link I sent you, and that is, when I insert some thumbnails in the weblog, the surrounding text suddenly turns bold. Without the photos the text is normal. Why would that be, do you think?
Thanks

it’s ok, I’ve sorted it. Sorry for being a pain 😊