French text using DW

[PerfectSpeed]

Does anybody know how I can create a page on DW with French text without it all going to c*** when live

Thanks.

 

[KC Leblanc]

Use the codes listed here. You can probably use "Find and Replace" to quickly change them instead of going through all your code by hand.

EDIT:I've used the above but another method that might be worth trying is using the META tag to specify French

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_meta.asp

 

[PerfectSpeed]

Cheers KC

I'll have a little play now

 

[sitemaster]

the character set you specify at the head of the page has an influence on this too, utf-8 character set useful link may be the way to go. I set it to my default after having problems with accented characters. Have a look at the top of the pages that DW generates for a line like this

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />


that will tell you what you are using at the moment, you can set it in the Fonts preferences to Unicode UTF-8 after that your code should preserve the character codes that you enter.

 

[PerfectSpeed]

Cheers Alan

I'll give it a go this morning.

 

[PerfectSpeed]

Just a thought.

I'm using an English keyboard, the text is to be copied and pasted, I'm using notepad to transfer the text.

Maybe this is causing the problem as my pages are set to
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />.

Could this be the problem