Hi there!
I've run into the problem often where a client using the HTML code for special characters, like ™ for the TM symbol in the product description. Once they go back to edit the description, it turns into a TM symbol, then the page will not validate with XHMTL. Same thing happens with & for ampersands. You can enter & into the description, but the next time you go there its back to &.
Is there any way to force the default text editor to use the HTML code instead of the symbols?
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31 Mar 2007, 05:02 PM #1
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Using special characters with encoding like ™ etc
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3 Apr 2007, 03:09 AM #2
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Re: Using special characters with encoding like ™ etc. in Zen cart
Is anyone having this same problem, or is it just me?
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3 Apr 2007, 05:43 AM #3
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Re: Using special characters with encoding like ™ etc. in Zen cart
Jade,
You are not the only one with the problem. It is a case of the safeties doing a bit too much and will be fixed in a future release.Please do not PM for support issues: a private solution doesn't benefit the community.
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5 May 2007, 09:57 AM #4
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Re: Using special characters with encoding like ™ etc. in Zen cart
Hey, I have the same problem!
At first I was trying to create a bilingual english and french website and the special character problem kept occuring. I nearly went mad!!!
I'll leave the French version for later on.
Meanwhile, stuff like ™ has to be edited every time I open the page that contains that character in admin. O so much fun...
(Imagine having to do that with 5 different kinds of accents on any given French page, every time you want to change something to a desription... Where is my Paxil?)
I"m glad to read that it will get fixed in the next release. When is that for??? I'll be waiting eagerly for it! (Meanwhile a patch would be sooooo sweet!!!)
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19 Oct 2007, 07:37 PM #5
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Re: Using special characters with encoding like ™ etc. in Zen cart
Unless I've missed something, this still seems to be an issue in the current release. Any update on this being fixed?
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19 Oct 2007, 08:16 PM #6
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Re: Using special characters with encoding like ™ etc. in Zen cart
No updates at this time.
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22 Apr 2010, 02:53 PM #7
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Product info pages strips & to &
Every time I edit my product info pages in Admin -> Catalog all the & are stripped to only &, which makes my product info pages unable to HTML validate.
What happens is that I enter the & and zen cart saves it correctly but next time I edit a produt page in admin all the &'s has automatically been stripped to &, and I need to manually change it again. It becomes very tedious.
Does anybody have a solution for this? Any help is much appreciated.
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29 Apr 2010, 08:34 PM #8
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Re: Using special characters with encoding like ™ etc. in Zen cart
Any updates to this problem? All '&' in my product description goes back to '&' each time I need to edit a product description. It gets extremely anoying in the long run
Any help is much appreciated.
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29 Apr 2010, 09:07 PM #9
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Re: Using special characters with encoding like ™ etc. in Zen cart
Fixed in EZ-Pages in 1.3.9a, and also in product descriptions in 1.3.9b
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29 Apr 2010, 09:34 PM #10
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Re: Using special characters with encoding like ™ etc. in Zen cart
Great, thanks. When is 1.3.9b expected to be released?
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