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JWL
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I'm using the TM and R symbols, those should be recognized by UTF-8, no? I mean if I write them like this, ® and ™ - than they will show up in both UTF-8 and ISO-5589.
But, anyway - I went on Dell's site, and they have the UTF-8 meta, and when I switch my browser to ISO-8859 on their site, their TM and R's signs mess up. They only work in UTF-8... and that's what we want. Here is a sample page: http://www.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/corp/pressoffice/en/2008/2008_09_08_rr_000?c=us&l=en&s=corp Switch to ISO-5589 and you will see the TM and R, with foreign marks next to them. I know you should be able to display TM and R in UTF-8, and that's what we need. Converting the .asp files to UTF-8 helped some... because the TM and R will display when the browser is set to UTF-8, but the problem is that it doesn't happen everytime, only like 50% of the time. The other half of the time, the TM and R have the invalid symbol, even though the browser is still set to UTF-8, see it doesn't make any sense. The TM and R should show up everytime since we changed the encoding to UTF-8. ARGH! It's aggravating, because on our configuration pages, we use a lot of these TM and R - and the page looks like crap with all these invalid symbols. |
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You can try the suggestion in the following FAQ and see if it works for you:
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Matt
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Hi Jwl, I understand you are getting frustrated. The recommendation I gave you is what I would consider the easiest way. I tested it on our demo store. Trying to re-encode the page is a lot more work than is needed and may lead to other problems. Ultimately, you can display a trademark in UTF-8 or ISO-5589. The character you use just has to match the declaration.
I think the problem you were first explaining is that your ® was being converted by the HTML editor. To retain the ® you need to type into the text box and not the HTML editor. Then you can use UTF-8. On the other hand, if you use the HTML editor and it is being converted you should use ISO-8859. So I recommend that you try one or the other. Make sure the character you saved match te page declaration. That works on our demo store and it will work for you as well. |
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JWL
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Hi, no - originally... I did put the ® when creating - for instance the BTO items, but even when you put this type of code ™ in the "name" or "description" boxes, when you save the updates to the BTO item, it converts this code to the actual (tm) (r) symbols.
I understand, what you are saying about the html editor, but we're not using that to input the ® and ™ code into the BTO description and title - we are using the basic editor. If we could get these codes to stay as is without converting to the actual symbols - than yes... problem would be solved, because that's how we do the (tm) and (r) symbols on the rest of our pages. Are you saying you have put the ® and ™ code on a BTO item, and when you save the info - it doesn't convert these to the actual symbols? Edited by JWL - 10-September-2008 at 6:56pm |
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EUREKA! I figured out how to make it work. Instead of trying to convert all the pages
to UTF-8... you just put the meta tag - but put it for the encoding in which the pages are already encoded which is: ISO8859-1. So put this tag in the header. <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO8859-1" /> Edited by JWL - 27-September-2008 at 1:52am |
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