Umbraco problems with displaying Special characters
Just a quick one this. I've been aware of this issue for a
while but I've only just acted on it.
Basically with Umbraco v4.0.1 (and possibly others), if you enter a special character such as a degree symbol (°) in the RichTextEditor, the character would be replaced with the dreadful default square character when the page was published.
To get round this, open umbracoSettings.config in the config folder and replace:
You should now be able to save the special characters.
Basically with Umbraco v4.0.1 (and possibly others), if you enter a special character such as a degree symbol (°) in the RichTextEditor, the character would be replaced with the dreadful default square character when the page was published.
To get round this, open umbracoSettings.config in the config folder and replace:
<TidyCharEncoding>Raw</TidyCharEncoding>
with:
<TidyCharEncoding>UTF8</TidyCharEncoding>
You should now be able to save the special characters.