Symbols and Characters

[Guest]

Ive just moved our company sites and customers sites to our new linux server
running ensim pro software All our sites are built using FP2003 but will not
display symbols and characters correctly ie pound sign now display as
question marks. Is a fix available or do i need to purchase dreamweaver and
dump the uncompatable frontpage.

 

[Steve Easton]

It's not an FP issue, it's a character encoding issue.


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[Ronx]

If the server delivering the page includes character set (particularly
UTF-8) in its HTTP headers, it may over-ride the character set defined in
your page. UTF-8 will cause symbols to display as "?" if the symbols are
encoded in the page using their ASCII value.

The only way to get symbols to render correctly 99.9% of the time is to code
them as entities. See http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_entitiesref.asp

 

[Andrew Murray]

it probably has more to do with Windows' language and character set settings than
with Frontpage. I doubt Dreamweaver would do a better job in this instance.