[TYPO3-english] Problems with high-ASCII in front end only...

[Bob]

Thanks Kay. It's TYPO3 4.4.6.

Looking at the rendered pages, it seems that the back-end is using 
ISO-8859-1 while the front-end is using UTF-8.

Since the back-end works correctly while the front-end doesn't, I 
assumed I'd need to set the front-end character set to be ISO-8859-1 
too. However, that gave me two characters for each of the high-ASCII 
characters!

Leaving the front-end as UTF-8 and changing the back-end to UTF-8 too 
instead fixes the problem for *new* content, but any existing content 
becomes corrupted - with questions marks in black diamonds in place of 
the high-ASCII characters.

Do we need to choose the latter option and re-enter all our content? Or 
is there a better solution?

Thanks again,

Bob


On 09/10/2011 12:31, Kay Strobach wrote:
> HI,
>
> set the charset. Which TYPO3 version do you use?
>
> Regards
> Kay
>
> Am 09.10.2011 13:02, schrieb Bob:
>> I have a site in development where editors copy and paste content from
>> various sources. Although we can strip away the formatting, this content
>> often contains high-ASCII, i.e. characters such as single left quotes
>> and single right quotes, m-dashes and n-dashes, etc.
>>
>> These all behave perfectly in the back-end - whether pasted directly
>> into a field (e.g. Header) or into the RTE. But in the front-end they
>> render as small boxes containing the hexadecimal ASCII code. (The source
>> code contains these characters too, so it doesn't appear to be a browser
>> issue.)
>>
>> Any idea how we can resolve this?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Bob
>
>