Forums / General / Quotes become ?
Halvor M
Thursday 08 September 2005 2:36:45 pm
When cutting and pasting from other text documents, I lose a lot of formatting. Most annoyingly, I lose my quotes, which end up as ? instead.
Would it help to do a search and replace in the original document, and change the quote marks " " to something else instead?
Friday 23 September 2005 11:43:39 pm
I have now discovered that the same problem occurs when using the built-in pdf generator to produce pdf versions of my EZ pages on the fly...
" are consistently converted to ?
Anyone have thoughts about this?
Bård Farstad
Saturday 24 September 2005 10:44:07 am
This happens because the quote character you use are not supported in the used character set. The solution is to use the utf-8 characterset with eZ publish.
--bård
Documentation: http://ez.no/doc
Xavier Dutoit
Sunday 25 September 2005 1:50:11 am
Hi Bard,
You'll make my day if you give me an easy trick to add/tweek/modify the char converters to deal with the few extra windows characters (the quotes, euro symbols... the usual guilties) and convert them to their proper iso-8859-1 (15) equivalent ?
cf this doc for a more complete description: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/www/windows-chars.html
By the way, I've had the problem with these chars even with utf-8 charset.
X+
http://www.sydesy.com
Monday 26 September 2005 3:27:38 am
Not to forget, how does one change character set?
Is this done from within the admin interface, or do I have to alter the settings within one of the underlying systems (php, sql etc)?
Thanks for your input - I am looking forwarding to resolving this :-)
Sunday 09 October 2005 2:15:16 pm
Is there a step-by-step on this?
I have looked around the forum, but I am afraid of damaging my install if I do something wrong here...
Sunday 09 October 2005 2:18:56 pm
...As I look around here, it seems many people have problems with utf-8 installs...
Perhaps it would be wiser just to alter MSWord quotes to something else? Anyone have any ideas on this?