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PARoss
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Tidy & Special Characters

Post by PARoss »

Karlis,

What do I need to check or uncheck to stop Tidy from changing my special characters.

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

<head>
  <title></title>
</head>

<body>
–
</body>

</html>
becomes

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Post by chrisjlocke »

Expand the HTML, XHTML, XML options, and uncheck numeric entities.
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Post by PARoss »

Numeric entities are unchecked, and it still converts special characters. What else can I do?

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Post by chrisjlocke »

Are you editing the 'default' Tidy Task? (the one that gets executed when you simply click the button)

If you want to .zip and email me tidy.dat, I'll have a check. It might be another setting its running.

Tidy.dat is found in C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Blumentals\WeBuilder\settings

Email it to blu @ chrisjlocke . co . uk
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Post by Karlis »

Yes, with Tidy it is not one setting but many setting combination (usually input and output encoding settings have a great influence) that may cause it behave strangely.
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Stopping HTML Tidy from converting special characters

Post by tonyd »

Having recently purchased Rapid PHP 2007 I was having trouble with the entities » (used in all my menus) and © being converted to their ascii character representation by the HTML Tidy actions that write back to the file.

I played around with the various HTML Tidy configuration options and this is what worked for me, leaving these entities unchanged in the Indent HTML Tags and Validate and Fix HTML tidy options:

1. make sure numeric entities is unchecked in the HTML, XHTML, XML options.

2. in the Character Encoding options, tick ascii-chars and set char-encoding to win1252 (BTW, I am running on XP).
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