Not quite sure whats going on there!! Basically, the HTMLConvertTable will look for any ASCII characters entered into Text placeholders and convert them to the correct html entity when published...
e.g. 'TM' (trademark) character converted to - ™ As long as you enter all of the characters you need converted in the file, you should be fine. Hope that helps! On Jan 21, 11:14 am, bobbykjack <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, kimdezen. I've been directed towards this feature before, so I > guess it's really time to plunge headlong into it. One question, > though: I thought that the HTMLConvertTable settings only kicked in on > publication. In this particular case, the characters have been badly > translated before the data is even saved so, unless I'm missing > something, HTMLConvertTable will kick in 'too late'. Any thoughts? > > - Bobby > > On Jan 20, 2:35 am, kimdezen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi bobbykjack > > > Within the ASP folder in RedDot, there is a file > > (HTMLConvertTable.txt) that you can use for character conversion. All > > you need to do is enter in any characters that you need to convert > > from ASCII to the corresponding HTML entity. > > > Once you have updated the file, edit each of the Project Variants that > > you want the conversion to occur (Smart Tree > Start > Administrater > > Project Settings > Project > Project Variants ...) - and select > > 'Convert characters to the following file format:' and enter > > HTMLConvertTable.txt in the field provided. > > > I think this would be a great post for the RedDot CMS Blog site > > (www.reddotcmsblog.com) - Content conversion, XHTML compliance, HTML > > tidy etc. Hopefully i'll be able to post this one up when i get some > > time.. > > > Cheers, > > Kim > > > On Jan 20, 2:29 am, bobbykjack <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > It appears as if something within the RedDot text editor is > > > translating some of the above characters. In particular, it looks as > > > though an endash is being converted to an emdash (which is obviously > > > incorrect). How can I prevent this from occurring? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RedDot CMS Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/RedDot-CMS-Users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
