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How to include 'trademark' symbols without failing W3C?

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Tony Coe	Monday 28 August 2006 3:58:18 am Hi! I have a problem - My content creator wants to include the trademark symbol (TM) in their content. They initially just pasted it in direct from wherever they originally got/created their content and that displays ok, however it causes the pages to fail W3C compliance. So, I suggested that they replace the offending symbols with the relevant ascii code: Like I would in a normal html page - But it won't display correctly! If they use the editor, it strips out the code and replaces it with a '?' symbol. If they turn the editor off, the code remains correct, but browsers don't display it - It just shows the code itself. I can obviously tell them to just type (TM) but they would rather use the proper symbol. Ideas anyone?
Marko Žmak	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. -- Nothing is impossible. Not if you can imagine it! Hubert Farnsworth
Kristof Coomans	Monday 28 August 2006 6:05:01 am Use the charset utf8 for your eZ site. independent eZ Publish developer and service provider \| http://blog.coomanskristof.be \| http://ezpedia.org
Tony Coe	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..
Kristof Coomans	Wednesday 30 August 2006 5:38:30 am Hi Tony Of course you also need to convert your eZ publish database to utf8. independent eZ Publish developer and service provider \| http://blog.coomanskristof.be \| http://ezpedia.org
Tony Coe	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.
Claudia Kosny	Wednesday 30 August 2006 2:58:35 pm Hello Tony Don't forget Marko's workaround - if you have only a few templates you could still replace the (TM) with the proper entity in the output. Greetings from Luxembourg Claudia