Help with text problems

**g1smd** · 6 Jun 2010, 08:53 AM

Sounds like accented characters not displaying, or the wrong character set being used.

**frank18** · 6 Jun 2010, 10:37 AM

Originally Posted by g1smd

Sounds like accented characters not displaying, or the wrong character set being used.

g1smd, you've hit the nail right on it's head. The character displayed in KeystoneAirsoft's pages is the symbol depicting something like "I don't know what this underlying character means". It may be caused by using an inferior html editor or just by copying and pasting text from another source into web pages.

Sadly there is no quick fix. The solution is to install a good editor (I prefer CKEditor - thanks to DrByte). Then one needs to go through every page that displays the ? question mark and edit whichever space/character causes the symbol to be displayed. This could be just an & or the symbol for 'degree' or even an extra empty space. CKEditor has a button (the Greek sign for Omega) which lets you insert a properly formatted special character. Then the ? needs to be edited/replaced in every instance.

**KeystoneAirsoft** · 6 Jun 2010, 03:16 PM

Hi all, thanks for your replies on this. all the text in the Define Pages were copied from the text from my original store and pasted into the ZenCart using the Plain Text editor. as it was HTML. Basically alot of the question marks/boxes are directly in front of the periods "." which should be a double space there but seems only single spaced after the symbol.

As fas as the text on the home page, I just wrote that in Frontpage 2002 and copied the html and pasted it. I didn't copy any of the <HTML> or <body> tags though as I know it was already added.

I will work on this and also try to get the CKEditor as frank18 mentioned and try getting that installed.

Again thank you for your prompt replies and suggestions.

The Character set is "utf-8"

**KeystoneAirsoft** · 6 Jun 2010, 04:16 PM

UPDATE!!!

Ok I found the issue. All my files are set to use the Character set - iso-8859-1. However on my home page or any other page for that matter when viewing source it was showing as UTF-8. I found that the template I was using in the includes/languages/Comstock(template)/english.php file it was set for the UTF-8 Char set. I changed that line to iso-8859-1 and all works great now.

Thanks g1smd and frank18 for mentioning the Char Set as that gave me a starting point to look at.

ALL IS Fine now.

**frank18** · 7 Jun 2010, 09:47 AM

Originally Posted by KeystoneAirsoft

UPDATE!!!

Ok I found the issue. All my files are set to use the Character set - iso-8859-1. However on my home page or any other page for that matter when viewing source it was showing as UTF-8. I found that the template I was using in the includes/languages/Comstock(template)/english.php file it was set for the UTF-8 Char set. I changed that line to iso-8859-1 and all works great now.

Thanks g1smd and frank18 for mentioning the Char Set as that gave me a starting point to look at.

ALL IS Fine now.

Tried to replicate your findings by changing the relevant line in .../english.php to different char sets but no change was observed on my local 1.3.9d development install.

Guess it had something to do with you using Frontpage to write and copying and pasting. I am not using Frontpage so further tests here won't be shedding any further light on your issue.

Glad that you got it fixed anyway

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