How to include 'trademark' symbols without failing W3C?

Monday 28 August 2006 4:12:26 am

Well you could override the template for the XML field and there replace manually the (TM) simbol with the relevant ascii code. But this is not a real sollution, more like a workaround.

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Hubert Farnsworth

Wednesday 30 August 2006 4:05:42 am

Hi Kristof, thanks for coming back to me.

I changed the charset of the site in /settings/override/i18n.ini.append to utf-8.
This has sucessfully changed the charset of the site, but doesn't seem to have helped.

Trademark symbols pasted into the content now appear as a row of meaningless characters,
if I enter the code ™ I still get the same response-
If the editor is on it changes them into ? characters, if it is off the code is just displayed, not converted to a trademark..

Wednesday 30 August 2006 6:56:34 am

Hi Kristof,

thanks for the response. I've had a look at what's involved in changing the database and it all seems a bit much just to enable us to display the trademark symbol, particularly having found references to bugs in the MYSQL UTF-8 charset.

As such I will advise my user to just type (TM) and give up on getting the actual symbol displayed. Not a perfect solution, but preferable to risking cocking up the database.

Thanks for the advice.

Tony.