Umbraco problems with displaying Special characters

16 Sep 2009

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:

<TidyCharEncoding>Raw</TidyCharEncoding>

with:

<TidyCharEncoding>UTF8</TidyCharEncoding>

You should now be able to save the special characters...read more