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Using special characters with encoding like ™ etc

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31 Mar 2007, 4:02 PM
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Using special characters with encoding like ™ etc

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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3 Apr 2007, 4:43 AM
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Re: Using special characters with encoding like ™ etc

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.

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5 May 2007, 8:57 AM
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Re: Using special characters with encoding like ™ etc

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!!!)

19 Oct 2007, 6:37 PM
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Re: Using special characters with encoding like ™ etc

Unless I've missed something, this still seems to be an issue in the current release. Any update on this being fixed?

19 Oct 2007, 7:16 PM
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Re: Using special characters with encoding like ™ etc

No updates at this time.

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22 Apr 2010, 1:53 PM
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Re: Using special characters with encoding like ™ etc

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. :wacko:
Does anybody have a solution for this? Any help is much appreciated.

29 Apr 2010, 7:34 PM
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Re: Using special characters with encoding like ™ etc

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 :frusty:
Any help is much appreciated.

29 Apr 2010, 8:07 PM
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Re: Using special characters with encoding like ™ etc

Fixed in EZ-Pages in 1.3.9a, and also in product descriptions in 1.3.9b

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29 Apr 2010, 8:34 PM
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Re: Using special characters with encoding like ™ etc

DrByte:

Fixed in EZ-Pages in 1.3.9a, and also in product descriptions in 1.3.9b

Great, thanks. When is 1.3.9b expected to be released?

29 Apr 2010, 8:49 PM
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Re: Using special characters with encoding like ™ etc

Also, regarding product descriptions, what would be the 'fix' for 1.3.8a, if I choose not to update right away?

29 Apr 2010, 8:50 PM
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Re: Using special characters with encoding like ™ etc

DML73:

Great, thanks. When is 1.3.9b expected to be released?
As soon as it's ready.

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29 Apr 2010, 9:03 PM
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Re: Using special characters with encoding like ™ etc

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As soon as it's ready.

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9 Aug 2011, 6:23 PM
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Re: Using special characters with encoding like ™ etc

DrByte:

Fixed in EZ-Pages in 1.3.9a, and also in product descriptions in 1.3.9b

This problem is still occurring for me on category descriptions.

Version 1.3.9h

Is that something that should have been fixed by the updates you noted?

9 Aug 2011, 6:24 PM
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Re: Using special characters with encoding like ™ etc

Not in 1.3.x, no.

But in the latest 1.5.0BETA, yes.

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