[open-literature] Wordpress Oddity

Tue Aug 17 10:25:14 UTC 2010

Hi guys,

Thanks for the tips. Have sorted the problem, and now feel liberated enough
to scatter French words all over my Open Shakespeare articles.

James

On 16 August 2010 19:14, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:

> On 16 August 2010 17:35, James Harriman-Smith <jh570 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> > Dear All, again,
> > Does anyone know why wordpress will not render an 'e' with an acute
> accent
> > (é)? Despite my best efforts, it always turns the word protégé into an
> > unsightly mess of characters when I move from typing the article in HTML
> to
> > the published form on openshakespeare.org....
>
> Are you copying and pasting the text into the wordpress browser page?
>
> If so it may be an issue with the locale on the two machines being
> different. If possible set your text editor to use utf8 encoding ...
>
> Rufus
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