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

Kay Strobach typo3 at kay-strobach.de
Sun Oct 9 19:58:30 CEST 2011


Hi,

can you please update to 4.4.11 or later first?
http://typo3.org/download/packages/

Thanks
Kay

Am 09.10.2011 17:57, schrieb 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
>>
>>
> 


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