Try this. Disable JavaScript in your browser, which effectively disables the editor. In the textarea that is normally taken over the the editor, type your test phrase and submit. If you get the same weird characters, it's your PHP script mixing up character encodings.
When editor is disabled, go to Tools > Page Info in FF. What do you see at the top where it says Encoding?
When it's doing the weird symbols.. i can go to in the browser (firefox), and turn it from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1. By doing that, it shows it perfectly. But why doesn't it just do that automatic?
UTF-8 is most commonly-used encoding because it allows webmasters to display any characters, which is invaluable in forums and blogs. Some websites, on the other hand, display content only in one language, so good old Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) does the trick. Either one will work, as long as you keep all components in sync. That is, you have to make sure your PHP handles characters correctly, as does MySQL. Same applies to ASP and any other scripting language there is out there. Failure to identify character set properly always results in display or data corruption problems.
Re: Foreign symbols, and letters
When editor is disabled, go to Tools > Page Info in FF. What do you see at the top where it says Encoding?
Re: Foreign symbols, and letters
Re: Foreign symbols, and letters
When it's doing the weird symbols.. i can go to in the browser (firefox), and turn it from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1.
By doing that, it shows it perfectly. But why doesn't it just do that automatic?
I hope it helps solve the problem.
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Re: Foreign symbols, and letters
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