[TYPO3-english] Special Characters in RTE

[Bernd Wilke]

On 01/30/2012 07:27 AM, Richard Davies wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We currently need support for the character ā (&#257) in at least one
> website. I've been looking through the TSREF documentation, rtehtmlarea
> documentation and can't find anything too helpful. Cases:
>
> If I put&#257 into the database directly, something in Typo3 transforms
> the&  to& in the output so it doesn't display the character. I've
> tried to turn off the RTE transformation in pageTSconfig with
> RTE.default.proc>
> I have also tried to remove
> RTE.default.proc.exitHTMLparser_db = 0
> I've tried turning off htmlSpecialChars in entry and exit as well. I'm not
> 100% sure it is the RTE exit that is specifically escaping the&, however I
> may have had the TS wrong. I put this in the pageTSconfig for the base
> page, do I have to apply it to all pages?
>
> However, I'd also like to be able to allow the user to add the character in
> the RTE. If I put&#257 into the code view and save, it works fine, however
> if I change back to the WYSIWYG view, it transforms it (and the source) to
> ā. Saving causes an 'error, probably mismatch between..'.
>
> I'd really appreciate some help on this, I'm sure I've missed something
> obvious.

which version of TYPO3 are you using?
this sounds strange in an UTF8 environment, as your special character 
should be available as any orther 'umlauts' like äöü which are no problems.

if you are using older version of TYPO3 with non UTF-8 BE AND database: 
try to update (converting database: http://pi-phi.de/293.html)

bernd
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