whats wrong with ©

[Matt S]

Hi

I am using Frontpage 2003. I have found a few threads about this but
nothing that solves my problem.

Every time I add © to my html it converts it to a copy symbol
instead of using the xhtml standard.

That is not a problem though. What is a problem is that as the copy
symbol is in my site template .dwt file. For some reason when I either
update an html file in my site or the dwt file itself I keep getting
"Â" characters appear in front of the copy symbol, so I have to open
the dwt file and remove them, then update all the pages.

Is this some wierd bug or is there a workaround for this.

Thanks

Matt

 

[Ronx]

It's a bug. In code view, right click and choose "Reformat HTML" results
in all character and numeric references being changed to their ASCII
equivalents. A work-around (that works for me) is to change the character
set for the web pages to UTF-8, which displays the ASCII characters
correctly.

Add this meta tag to the DWT, replacing any similar tag that's there:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
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Hi

I am using Frontpage 2003. I have found a few threads about this but
nothing that solves my problem.

Every time I add &copy; to my html it converts it to a copy symbol
instead of using the xhtml standard.

That is not a problem though. What is a problem is that as the copy
symbol is in my site template .dwt file. For some reason when I either
update an html file in my site or the dwt file itself I keep getting
"Â" characters appear in front of the copy symbol, so I have to open
the dwt file and remove them, then update all the pages.

Is this some wierd bug or is there a workaround for this.

Thanks

Matt

 

[Matt S]

Thanks, i had mine as

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type"
content="application/xhtml+xml;charset=UTF-8" />

but changing to as you sudgested fixed the problem