Special Characters and Suivant Ready Theme

[Siamese-Dream.Com]

Hi all;

tried to write the word:

appliqué

In a product description, and it showed up as:

appliqu�

Any suggestions on what I need to do o get it to show the accented e character instead of a question mark in a diamond?

[lesliekirk]

Re: Special Characters and Suivant Ready Theme

Try using é

[ILoveHostasaurus]

Re: Special Characters and Suivant Ready Theme

Hi Mark, Leslie's solution should work. The issue is the character set used by the underlying database the store runs off of; the default character set is UTF8, so the only characters that can be stored are shown here http://www.fileformat.info/info/charset/UTF-8/list.htm I'm guessing the accented e likely differs in some way from the c3a9 character shown on that page; perhaps just an issue of whatever application you pasted it in from. In any case, it's always best to represent any non-ascii character with the html code equivalent so it displays properly in every browser, as some visitors may have different character sets for their given browser.

[rajnishsi]

Re: Special Characters and Suivant Ready Theme

And, in future when in doubt about these characters, there is a beautiful tool that converts special characters into encoded HTML, http://www.unicodetools.com/unicode/convert-to-html.php

[lesliekirk]

Re: Special Characters and Suivant Ready Theme

And, in future when in doubt about these characters, there is a beautiful tool that converts special characters into encoded HTML, http://www.unicodetools.com/unicode/convert-to-html.php

Awesome! Thank you!

[Siamese-Dream.Com]

Re: Special Characters and Suivant Ready Theme

Thank you so much, Leslie, David, and Rajnishi.

I used Leslie's solution and it worked perfectly.

Thanks again, everyone.