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
Comments
You are correct Simon and thank you for mentioning this. But from experience I know some people are sometimes reluctant to risk upgrading at times in case things go wrong. In which case a small, simple fix to an annoying problem are more preferable.
Nether the less, still thought it would be worth mentioning.
AS I understand it this was a mistake that slipped through the net on that version and is not present in the v4.0.2 release.