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1. Re: dreamweaver cc html entity conversion problem in mac -NO utf-8 related answer please
Rob Hecker2 Dec 1, 2014 2:46 PM (in response to siamesecat1)How about if you try <meta charset="iso-8859-1">
I'm not on a MAC, but that does work on a PC.
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2. Re: dreamweaver cc html entity conversion problem in mac -NO utf-8 related answer please
siamesecat1 Dec 2, 2014 2:21 AM (in response to Rob Hecker2)That's exactly what happens when you create a new latin1 document. here is an example of mine with the problematic half-converted chars in case i skip something:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>
<body>
ĞÜŞİÖÇğüşıöç
</body>
</html>
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3. Re: dreamweaver cc html entity conversion problem in mac -NO utf-8 related answer please
Rob Hecker2 Dec 2, 2014 4:26 AM (in response to siamesecat1)It's an odd issue. I don't have any other suggestions. I use Chinese, Vietnamese and Japanese, but I always use UTF8.
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4. Re: dreamweaver cc html entity conversion problem in mac -NO utf-8 related answer please
siamesecat1 Dec 2, 2014 4:44 AM (in response to Rob Hecker2)it really is odd.... on windows, i have never experienced such a weirdness, and since this is the first time i use dw on mac, i cannot know where to turn to....
just to be sure we are on the same page (and assuming you and i only differ on having turkish keyboard layout installed-and this is also what i get on windows too),
when i use utf-8 for as the default encoding charset, and when i type these letters on design view:
ĞÜŞİÖÇğüşıöç
I see the exact same letters on the code view too. is it the same for you too? or do you get them all/some converted to html entities?
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5. Re: dreamweaver cc html entity conversion problem in mac -NO utf-8 related answer please
Rob Hecker2 Dec 2, 2014 4:58 AM (in response to siamesecat1)We are on the same page. I used your test. I copied and pasted your text example into design view, then looked at it in code view.
You said from the start that you don't (or can't) use UTF8 for some reason. I do find that UTF8 works well for me, with all the various languages I work with. Of course, one step in workflow where UTF8 isn't specified and it all falls apart, but if you can control all the variables, it works.
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6. Re: dreamweaver cc html entity conversion problem in mac -NO utf-8 related answer please
siamesecat1 Dec 2, 2014 5:15 AM (in response to Rob Hecker2)Ok, when you look at the code view, what do you see exactly?
do you see unconverted
ĞÜŞİÖÇğüşıöç
or converted
ĞÜŞİÖÇğüşıöç
Here is one of my reasons:
I sometimes create newsletters in turkish for my customers, and the html files i prepare are sent to customers attached as inline through various versions of outlook or thunderbird, or through i completely different email sender company (none is sent by me, i only create the html file). And most of the time the headers and some coding are cut off from the code when used to send as newsletter, and i have no control at all on it. so i have to create absolute correct viewed/rendered html files since i have no control at all on which sending method will be used or which os or browser or mail system will be used to open it...
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7. Re: dreamweaver cc html entity conversion problem in mac -NO utf-8 related answer please
Rob Hecker2 Dec 2, 2014 5:23 AM (in response to siamesecat1)With UTF8, in code view, I see the characters. With Latin1 I see the entities.
Yes, given the situation you described, I can see why you need to use entities. What a pain.
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8. Re: dreamweaver cc html entity conversion problem in mac -NO utf-8 related answer please
siamesecat1 Dec 2, 2014 5:35 AM (in response to Rob Hecker2)thank you.. at least this conversation gives us the result:
latin1 really is not working as expected.
and since i have experienced the exact same issue on a complete different version and type and time of Mac, it can be said that this issue is related to Mac version of DW.
i guess the step right now is, to find out:
- if the DW for Mac is bugged for latin1,
- or the turkish keyboard of Mac is bugged (but since the keyboard works as expected in any other program, i am strongly suspicious of a DW bug for Mac)
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9. Re: dreamweaver cc html entity conversion problem in mac -NO utf-8 related answer please
Rob Hecker2 Dec 2, 2014 6:10 AM (in response to siamesecat1)I agree. It sounds like a possible DW MAC bug. You may want to report it below:
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10. Re: dreamweaver cc html entity conversion problem in mac -NO utf-8 related answer please
siamesecat1 Dec 2, 2014 6:41 AM (in response to Rob Hecker2)Thank you, I've completed the form in a flash. Will keep posted here as soon as I get an answer..


